To the Moon and Back...

Last week while plotting our route to Wyoming we saw something on the map that sounded crazy! Then we Google'd it and realized it WAS crazy! We had to see it ... we had to stop by ... it was (pardon the pun) OUT OF THIS WORLD!

We went to Craters On The Moon National Monument and Preserve. What an amazing place! Early pioneers referred to it as "Satan's Vomit" (gross...I know) and it is just sooo odd to see this black jagged lava landscape right next to the potato fields of Idaho. Quite the contrast!

Murray and I took a guided hike across lava beds and through caves - it was sooo interesting. The NPS does a great job of educating park visitors. Here are some pictures!

Those are the Spatter Cones behind us...very interesting! And next to us (not in the pic) is a cone called "Snow Cone" - it was 85 degrees so the surface temp was like, 150 degrees! But inside some of the caves there is still snow from the winter - it's very insulated so it doesn't melt! Neat, huh?


Here we are in a cave that was formerly a Lava Tube - you might be able to make out the cave opening behind us. The guy who took the picture did NOT take any creative license on this....grrrrr....

This is me surveying the rugged terrain - sooo odd!!!

Murray and our "son" Petey in the middle of a lava field!