After doing some usual morning chores, we headed out to the Caverns before noon. We decided to take the self-guided walking tour of the Big Room, something we knew we had missed the last time we were here back in 1988. While the beauty of the Caverns was unchanged, the pathways and visitor center was much more commercial than we remembered it. We hadn't done the Big Room before so we couldn't compare it for sure, but it didn't seem to have the same natural cave feel that we remembered. Nevertheless, we spent more than two hours on the 1 mile trail (that was listed as being a one hour tour, but obviously that was only if you rushed through it), taking out time to really enjoy it, but getting passed by many others in a bigger hurry than we were. Afterward we walked through part of the museum in the visitor's center, then decided we needed to come back tomorrow to take the King's Palace tour and the rest of the museum. Got back around dusk, tended the horses and settled down for the evening.
