Back in Time: Day 2, Ruby Falls and Rock City

When I was in Chattanooga I went to Ruby Falls and Rock city. I have pictures up on Facebook but if you haven't already seen them I'll put some of the highlights here.

These are from Ruby Falls in no particular order. We went down into Lookout Mountain in an elevator to the caverns that lead to Ruby Falls. They had different types of lighting to display certain rock formations:



This is called the Chandelier:



This is a very natural formation known as the Outlet:



When we reached the large chamber where the actual waterfall is the only thing that was lit was the entryway we'd come through. The waterfall was at the opposite end in complete darkness. There were speakers in the chamber which were playing very dramatic music and then the waterfall was revealed:


The waterfall is lit from beneath:


The opening where the water comes out is only about two to three feet wide:


And proof that I was there:


This is from the top of Lookout Mountain where you can supposedly see seven states. I don't know. . .


The rest of these are from Rock City (. . . we built this city . . .) which is basically a large collection of huge boulders. And I mean HUGE. Here are two:


This is a magical music-emitting rock. It should be noted here that the theme of Rock City is magic fairyland and gnomes and stuff like that. There is a Fairyland caverns portion of the park that has large dioramas of Hansel and Gretel and Jack and the beanstalk and stuff like that. In fact, after I snapped this picture a unicorn galloped by:




Fat Man Squeeze is the best name for anything ever:



Here's me going through Fat Man Squeeze:



Lover's Leap:


I also went to the Tennessee aquarium while in Chattanooga. It's really nice But it's also still an aquarium so if you want to see a more complete collection of pictures from there then check on Facebook as they are all posted there. But to make mention of a few things. . .

First is that the setup of the aquarium is interesting because it's split into two buildings, one for ocean and one for river. On top of that the landscaping (Is it landscaping if it's all concrete? Whatever.) is very interesting. You can see the wave form foot bridges in this picture with the aquarium buildings behind them:


On the other side of the foot bridges is this fountain:



which starts this river that runs between the two aquarium buildings, interrupting the cityscape in various ways as it goes:


I also took this picture of jellyfish which I love a lot. I usually cant get good jellyfish pictures:


Near the jellyfish in the aquarium were displays of jellyfish art by different artists. Some of my favorites: