399 stairs too many

With one successful sightseeing day down, we went for another. We piled into the small car again the next day for a tour of Tres Ojos. Tres Ojos is an underground cave with 3 lakes inside. We realized after about 5 stairs that Senora X and my chubby Miss O were not going to make it, and up they went to wait for the rest of us. With Baby R strapped tight, Miss M, Miss P and Senora A made our way down the 200 stairs to the bottom. It was not as cool as I had hoped and the bats that were flying around were freaking the girls out. Senora A’s vision is not too good and the guide had to help her most of the way since it was rather dark. Once again the girls really did awesome and we made it to the bottom. We caught a little boat that took us across one of the lakes and looked around the other side. This time I wished I had paid more attention in science as the guide told us about stalagmites and stalag-something else. I guess like with most caves, there is only one way in and one way out. So back up another 200 stairs to get out we went. I was starting to get flashbacks of my high school Grand Canyon trip where I almost did not make it out of the Canyon. I had to resort to my military mind frame, suck it up and focus on getting up the stairs with Baby Rio starting to get beyond sweaty. Slowly but surely we all made it, and that is one cave I will not be back to visit.