So we were able to watch some crazy people jump off the bridge and land on the ground below. These are some nice "professional" pictures taken of us on the bridge looking down and with the bridge in the background. They have a golf course in the bottom of the gorge that we heard is a great course for those golf enthusiasts.
Thursday and Friday night we stayed at a place called Miracle Hot Springs. We stayed in these things called geo domes. Have you ever gone camping and wished that you could bring your bed with you?
Well this is basically what it was, luxury camping. Inside the go dome were tile floors, and a queen sized bed. But outside our room was a picnic table, fire pit, etc. all the things you need for camping. The hot springs were awesome. It was so nice to get in the pools at night after a long day. They had one pool that was about 93 degrees, and they had another pool that was about 103 degrees, and they had private pools also that were probably somewhere in the middle. I didn't get any pics of the pools, whoops, so if you want to see what the pools were like click on the link above. One really random thing about this place was they had 3 live alligators.
Friday morning the grounds keeper was in their pin mowing their grass. This made Dean, the male alligator, a little upset. It was definitely interesting to watch. The females didn't care about what was going on so we didn't get to see much of them. They stayed under the water.
Friday we did a bunch of exploring. The first place we went to was called Mammoth cave. It was about 1/2 mile long path through the cave. It was pretty cool.
A few miles up the road was another cave called Indian Ice Cave. This cave has a floor of ice that is 25 feet deep. We didn't think it was as cool as a cave. It was a lot shorter and guided, so we couldn't really explore what we wanted ourselves. The pictures below are the pathway to the entrance of the cave, and then some of the ice on the bottom of the cave floor.
After those 2 caves we went to the Crater's of the Moon National Monument. It is a huge lava field that was formed forever ago. The lava flow caused a bunch of lava tubes which are now caves. We took a guided tour through one of the caves called Indian Tunnel. It was pretty big, and had a lot of ceiling collapses so you didn't need a flashlight.
After the guided tour we decided to go through some of the other caves close by. The next one was called Boy Scout Cave. This cave was pitch black inside so we had to take flashlights. The entrance of this cave was quite a bit trickier than the stairs that we took into the other one. Once we got in it opened up big, but then we noticed that the ceiling got really low up ahead. We thought about going back, but continued on. We had to army crawl through most of this part. We were definitely not prepared for this type of cave exploring. Our hand, knees, heads, elbow, etc. were very sore. We had a lot of laughs as we were crawling slowly through the small space. You can see in the picture of Jeremy the small space that we had to fit through. It was fun, but we decided that we were done with the spelunking after that.
This is a picture of some of the lava fields. They stretch for 60 miles north to south. It's crazy. There's that awesome professional photographer again. She followed us everywhere.
Saturday we went to a place called Thousand Springs. They just happened to be having an arts, crafts, and blues festival that day as well. We walked around the booths for a while, had some lunch, listened to some music, and then went on a canoe ride. This was hilarious. Jeremy has a slight fear of the water and doesn't always feel safe around it. So as we're taking off he starts freaking out that we're gonna tip over. The only reason he felt like we were gonna tip was because he was panicking. Once he calmed down a bit and got his bearings we did just fine, for the most part. We did decide that we would not make a good team for the Amazing Race.
The canoe ride took about an hour. We went around the island that they were having the festival on. Throughout the ride we were able to get pictures of the different springs that are in the area. It was really pretty. These falls go year round because they are springs. The other falls that Twin Falls is famous for weren't flowing because they are mostly from snow runoff, so it was fun to see these falls. We did make it back alive to the docking area with only a few mishaps of paddling us into some of the shrubbery on the sides of the river, mostly when I would stop to take a picture and stopped paddling. Jeremy took most of the mishaps since he was at the front. He he he.
That night we decided to lay low and went to a movie. We saw Eagle Eye. It was pretty good. On the way back home we stopped by the new Twin Falls Temple. It was really pretty all lit up at night.
That night we stayed at this cute little cabin. It was pretty simple with just a bed, a bunk bed and a small desk. I didn't feel well that night and went to bed early so we didn't get to sit outside on the cute porch swing like we wanted to.
We had a great time. We did miss the kids though. We kept saying we wished the kids were here and how much they would have loved the things that we did. So we might just have to make another trip back up in the spring. The falls will be going at that time with the snow runoff.
Thanks to my mom for coming up from TX to watch the kids. She is such an amazing grandma and the kids love her to pieces. The night before she went back home Mikkele had a bit of a melt down because she didn't want grandma to go back home. I explained that she needed to go back home and take care of papa now that she had been at our house for almost 2 weeks. I told her we would take some pictures the next morning before she left so she had something to look at when she got sad. So here is one of the pics that we took of grandma and the kids. Thanks mom! We love you and miss you!
4 comments:
Fun times had by everyone... not too bad picture of Grandma with the grandkids.
Sounds like a way fun anniversary. That was very nice of your mom to come up and watch the kids. That is a great picture of them.
What a cute picture of Grant!
weird, Jason and I have the exact same picture taken by ourselves on that bridge! Anyway, sounds like you had a great time, who knew that Idaho could be so much fun?!
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