Craters of the Moon

Ray and I took the kids on a mini vacation to Craters of the Moon. For those that don't know what Craters of the Moon is, it is a National Park in Idaho where there is lots of Lava Rock of different kinds, and lots of underground tunnels that you can hike through. It was beautiful and a little scary all at the same time. And best of all it is almost in our own backyard. :)



Ellie posing in front of her sign. It said wild caves. She wanted to know why it was so wild. lolWe are at the bottom of this cave looking up at the sky. The rooms were as big as a regular sized home, and they seemed to go on forever. All I could think about while in this cave was please don't collapse, please don't collapse. lol Ya, I was really scared!This is one of the caves that had caved in. I was a bit nervous having the kids run around some of these open caves. I guess I am a bit of a paranoid mother.

Here the kids are getting ready to climb down into one of the lava tunnels. Some of them still had snow and ice in the bottom of them, and the temperature was a lot colder than up on top. This is one of the many signs around the park. It explains how the park was made all those years ago.

I made Ray hold the kid's hand while walking up this path. The drop off/lava slide on the other side was like 200 feet deep. Really dangerous.

My little lava babies sitting in a little lava whole. :)