Craters of the Moon

 We went to Craters of the Moon with my parents, and we met my Aunt and Uncle who live in Twin Falls there. I couldn't believe how amazing it was there; I really just cannot express how cool it was. It was a volcanic waste land. Apparently there is a major eruption caused by an earthquake every 2,000 years, and we are over due. It is hard to imagine that this place has had two thousand years to grow back, and plant life is just barely breaking down the rocks.

 This is from the top of a cinder cone. Just one tree all alone at the top.

 We ate in Arco on our way home.

 I loved seeing my Aunt and Uncle. I have a lot of happy memories of them from when I growing up. They had a basket of instrument in their house. (Tambourines and bumpy sticks and things like that.) I loved singing Christmas carols at their house. Their house always had a special smell that smelled like happy memories.

 My dad and his big sister!

 The rocks had some minerals in them that made them sparkle.

Spatter Cones. These happen when the eruption slows down and just spits out little globs of lava. It forms these random rock formations.

One little man didn't want to ride in the stroller so Dad got to push around an empty stroller.

 Pahoehoe lava looks like ropes to me. To Edmund it looks like wrinkled blankets.