Spullunking (i don't know how to spell it..you know, caving)

So before the whole latest crisis of my life (the accident) .... I had a really great day....I went with a couple of my friends to Kochi to check out some caves. We donned yellow suits, hard hats, wellies, and miner lights....and wandered into a cave with our intrepid Japanese guide. Really, we had no idea what we were getting into. Someone suggested we check out some caves, I figured since it was kind of a tourist spot, I wouldn't have much to worry about...and blindly followed the leader. In fact for the first 20 minutes, I was wondering..."Why did they make us wear these yellow jumpsuits?" I mean, we were walking on a paved trail thru the caves...it was a tourist trap...there was no reason for us to have dressed up. Then...our guide points to a fenced off area, and says..."This is where we start our journey.".... My friends and I looked at each other and started laughing...Was he kidding? There was a small hole in the wall, barely higher than my knee (and I'm like 5'2 so knee high, isn't very high)...we were to crawl thru that. And almost all of us made it. One of my friends got a bit clausterphobic and turned back, which was a shame, because the experience was really awesome. Once we were thru the crawl space we found ourselves in ankle high water (hence the wellies) with only our minor lights to guide us. Now, if we were in the States, I don't feel like this adventure would have been commercially possible, what with all the legalities and liabilities. We had to use ropes and rock climbing skills to scale the walls and move from "room to room". The cave was huge...insane. And there were bats...lots and lots of bats....all (but one) sleeping peacefully on the ceiling (the pile of bat dung was over my knees...luckily, i didn't step in it.) What a cool day...we had so much fun...and other than my friend B (who was a tad hung over ... okay drunk still... from his night on the town) who managed to spew a couple of times along the journey...I think we all have a new respect for cavers.