City of Rocks

Our next one-day vacation was to City of Rocks in Idaho. TB even joined us on this one! And this is the last photo you'll ever see from this camera because after balancing it on the hood of the car for this group shot, we forgot to pick it up before we took off down the dirt road, remembering just after it flew off and broke the lens. So now it's just iPhone pictures until/unless we buy another camera... or break the iPhone.

It is a long drive, but the kids are good at entertaining themselves with music and drawing. Ikey pretty much only draws trains, and he told us from the back seat that this train says "OOOP". He handed the "IkeyPad" up and we found that he had written his first word. He didn't even ask how to spell it (today) and now he can write OOOP any time he wants. He said that he couldn't write CHOO or ISAAC, although he knows how to spells those words, so OOOP is it for a while.

The visitor center in Almo had cool wagons that we climbed on to check out the ride. Ikey pretended his was on a train of course.

We hiked around Camp Rock/Register Rock and Jovie learned the word "signature" and has used it constantly since then.

 TB did some non-technical climbing to look at the "tubs" on the top of the rock and get a great photo of the view. He took a little time out to text Hank that he was on "one of Aimee's crazy adventures". I thought that was nice.

We hiked to Creekside Towers and to Parking Lot Rock too. The kids were great hikers and didn't need a lift.

Jovie took a chance jumping down the steps on the trail. She was pushing the weeds out of the way and said, "These plants are KILLING me."

We posed in Window Arch just like every non-climbing tourist that has ever been to City of Rocks.

 We had a pretty good steak at Almo Creek Outpost Steakhouse, and then a nice long drive home ignoring the GPS's instructions to take every private dirt road between there and here.