We also got to go the quarry on learning Monday to see where the stones come from, which was AWESOME! Here's what the quarry looked like.

Here's the giant diamond-embedded, horror-movie saw they keep in a dark warehouse for cutting up stones (an human bodies).

Here we all are on the tour getting schooled about cutting stone in the winter as opposed to the rest of the year. As the stone below ground tends to contain moisture it has to be protected in the winter and allowed to dry out before it is exposed to freezing temps. If it is not protected the freezing of the water it contains could cause the stone to fracture and crumble.

Finally here's a shot of one of the super-sized fork lifts they use to move stne at the quarry. The truck-loving little kid in me was loving this!