Thursday: creators of the moon, and curry

Thursday morning James woke up early and went to his favorite donut shop in Idaho Falls.   They make some yummy apple donuts that they only sale on thursday mornings and he didn't want to miss out.  They where warm when he brought them home and the perfect beginning to a good day.

After breakfast we made our way to Creators of the Moon.  We watched a ranger talk about the area for a bit and then went into the info sation to plan our adventure.  

Stamping our national parks passport

Jr Ranger in training

Learning about inferno cone

Hiking up inferno cone

still hiking

WO there's life at the top?!

doing some research

Look mom, no hands.  Wind power

Everett learned a new trick.  

I can't express how much I loved having James around

Look I have big eyes

On our way back down. 

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exploring the splatter cones where the lava came out to form Inferno Cone

starting our hike to see large creaters

Everett was determined to be in front and sang a little song about walking as he walked

The hike was 3 miles long.  So about half way I took the kids back to the car and James finished the hike.

saying goodbye to Papa

all the rocks where shiny with gold and silver

determined to make it back to the car

When we made it back to the Car Everett fell asleep and we drove to Papa.  Papa told us a little more about the area he hiked and then we made our way back to the ranger station for the girls to get their jr Ranger badges.

gotta make sure they did their work 

for survivors they each got a squished penny

Since the ranger station and solar glasses for sale we went ahead and purchased our glasses for the solar eclipse coming this august.   We even looked at the sun.  Pretty exciting stuff.

on our way back home we stopped to take our family national park picture

our tradition 

When we got home James made curry for dinner and then relaxed.

just relaxing

Of course Aunt Alisha and I enjoyed another game night.  This time Alisha won.