Day 1&2- Travel day and Craters of the Moon

On August 5th, we embarked on our much anticipated family vacation. We had been planning this one ever since we printed off Alyssa's "4th Grader in the Park" pass back in September. Our first stop was Craters of the Moon near Arco, Idaho. Craters of the moon isn't actually a National Park. It is a National Monument, but Alyssa's pass got us into Monuments as well as Parks. We were surprised by how unique and cool Craters of the Moon was. We spent 1 day here seeing all that there was to see. It consisted of "cones" and caves. Here is a family selfie on top of the tallest cone.

The kids loved how light the lava rocks were. I'm just glad Tyler didn't drop it on my head.

The caves were our favorite part of Craters of the Moon. This was the first cave we explored. It was actually more of a tunnel because it had an exit at the back.

It had a little mini cave at the end of the tunnel right before climbing out.

 And we made it all the way through.

We bought head lamps for the girls and the adults. We were so glad that we had them because some of the caves were quite dark.

We didn't take the boys down into one of the caves because it was too tight of a fit to get into it so I got to hang out with them and wait while Danny explored the last one with the girls. Tyler liked having a turn in the hiking backpack when Camden got tired of it.

It was a nice little stop and we were glad we took the time to see it.