Lights Under Louisville 12/21/2025

We took a last minute road trip to Louisville to check out a magical underground Christmas light show. The hotel promised a heated pool but I think it was in fact refridgerated and also kind of gross in general. The continental breakfast was pretty decent though. The night we got there the wait to go through the cave was SEVERAL HOURS LONG. So we got up first thing in the morning and headed to the cave. It was pretty cool.

Line going into the cave
The line going into the cave. There were also ziplines down here.

Jsut getting started
Just getting into the caves, paying and of course reading the rules on the signs.

Brake lights
The brake lights on the vehicle ahead did not enhance my photos.

Trees and a tunnel
Trees and a tunnel that I think goes over to the zip line area.

Santa waving
Santa waving to the spelunkers checking out the lights.

Rudloph cube
Here's a cube with animated lights showing off a very cute Rudolph.

Dancing snowmen
Dancing snowmen.

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Trees
A row of light up trees.

Grinch stealing a tree
The Grinch stealing a tree.

Cool row of trees
A cooler row of trees.

Field and stream
A cool field with a stream running through it.

Ant
Some cool light up bugs, check out this ant.

Snail
Probably the coolest light up snail I have ever seen.

Wigga worm
A light up wigga-worm.

R2D2 and C3PO
Hold on to yoru light sabers, dorks. Here's some Star Wars lights. Starting with R2D2 and C3PO.

Storm Troopers
Storm Troopers.

Luke
Luke's using the force here, I guess.

Charlie Brown
This is more like it.

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Some classic Christmas lights.

Super heroes
Some super heroes.

Hulk
Hulk and Thor and stuff.

Justice League
Justice Leaque.

Christmas tank
Christmas tank. Believe it or not that's not the first Christmas tank I've seen.

We the people
Patriotic lights.

Thank you for your service
Thank a vet!

Christmas dinosaurs
These are the first Christmas Dinosaurs I have seen.

Christmas dunny
Dunny is Australian for toilet so I am not sure what is being said here.

Christmas dino fight
Christmas dino duel.

Mining
Some photos of the mines.

Mining lights
Some lights based on mining technology.

Harry Potter
Dumbledore wants to bump wands.

Quiditch
What was this jazz called agian? Quidditch?

Inflatables
Some inflatables.

Toy Story
Toy Story display.

Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid.

More Mermaids
Some more Little Mermaid.

Ursala
Ursala.

Santa in the off season
Santa relaxing in the off season.

DESC
What's this one called? Cars? I don't know it came out after I was too old and before I had kids.

Barbie
Come on Barbie lets go party.

Bowser and Peach
There was some cool video game related items as well.

Mario stuff
Some Mario characters.

Light Tunnels
There were some bigger light tunnels I took video of. I will have to make an effort to add them to this page.

Alien lights
The aliens were pretty cool.

PEter PAn
Some cooler classic Disney representation.

Yetti
There was a video fo a Yetti smashing through the ice towards the end. I'm not sure if I got video of it but at some point I will try to get the video form this event added to this page.

Claw Zone
After this we went to the Claw Zone. It was apparent quickly who is more prone to gambling and doubling down! But this was a neat little distraction on our overnight journey to Louisville.

All Claw Machines
Yup it's ALL claw machines.

Cute doodads
There were lots of cute doodads to win.

Shin Chan
Like this Shin Chan butt item.

Pokemon
Are these pokemon dressed like other pokemon?

Bulbasaur
My son won this Bulbasaur.

Kuromi
And my daughter won this Kuromi. It was a pretty cool overnight trip!

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