While trying to decide what to do with my mom when she was in town, I thought about Craters of the Moon. My mom thought that sounded great. I've heard of it a lot, I've driven past it, seen pictures of other people's trip, but never been. So we decided to go even though my mom had to fly out that night. I was getting pretty exhausted (July is a busy month! I had Spudman a couple days later and camping with the family the day after that). But we are happy we went. I had to go get Sadie some shoes last minute because her shoes were worn in the wind caves and they don't allow you to wear anything that's been in any other caves because of the bat virus. I knew I hadn't worn my shoes, but Sadie definitely had. No biggie, we found some and I told her to be super careful not to get them dirty!
The park was cool, but I would be more excited to go if it were closer or if we drove past on our way anywhere. Instead, it's in the middle of nowhere. The drive is kind of interesting because you see the INL site, or at least some of it. And there are some mountains. But mostly it's just nothing. So I doubt we will be going back often, but we did enjoy it.
After stopping at some of the other sites, we made it to the path to the caves. It really wasn't very long but it was hot and the kids were getting a little hangry by the end. Kaden really loved the caves though! It was his idea to go see the last two.
Lava rock is pretty unique. There were four caves total but the Indian Cave was the coolest. It had holes in the ceiling to let the light in and it was long enough to hike through and come out the other side. Kaden really liked the caves once he got past his hesitation. We learned it's much easier climbing up and out than down and in. But nobody got hurt, other than a scrap maybe. We had hiking pills (skittles) and I gave Kaden a piggy back ride for the last stretch. We weren't there for very long and we saw what we wanted to see so we got back in the car and drove the almost two hours home.
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