From Sara via e-mail:
We left the KOA after showers and breakfast and headed to Craters of the Moon National Monument. We stopped by the visitor's center and the boys picked up their Junior Ranger kits. Pat got our caving permits and we drove straight to the cave sites for a ranger-guided tour of one of the caves. Our ranger, Emerald, had just finished her Masters in Geology and guided us through a lava field to the cave site telling us all about different kinds of lava flow, then led us into a giant lava tube called Indian Tunnel Cave. it was a pretty strenuous trek over rocky terrain, but we all made it through the lava tube and up through the tiny hole to the surface.
It was warm, no, hot and being on a big, black lava flow didn't make things cooler. After we left the lava tube/cave area we went to the cinder cone -- a big hill of fine cinder sand. I sat in the camper to sweat while the boys and Pat climbed to the top of the cinder cone. They reported that the view was amazing.
Our initial plan had been to stay 2 days near Craters of the Moon so that we woulnd't have to do so much driving, but we didn't have any good options for places to stay so we drove back to Idaho Falls. Once we reached civilization, we stopped at an Albertson's to get some essentials. When we got back in the motorhome, it started making an awful sound -- we had a huge break in our exhaust system and the muffler was just acting as decoration. Ooops.
We checked in to the closest RV park and Pat talked to the owner of the park about muffler shops in the area. We had a campfire and went to bed knowing there was nothing we could do until Monday morning.
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