Ice Caves

On Saturday my brother Joshua and niece Emily came for a visit. We took a trip up to the ice caves. When we went up there in June the caves had not formed yet so we were excited to go again and see the caves. We were not disappointed!

My brother brought his dog along for the trip. The kids just LOVED him! He is a pretty strong dog as Noah learned the hard way. He was walking the dog and the dog took off across the parking lot dragging Noah along. He's got some pretty road rash to show for it too!

We had a picnic lunch before we started on the hike.

Emma and Emily had a great time playing together along the way.

I like this picture with the kids all running ahead and the trees all around.

This was a really cool tree.

Emma and Emily standing next to one of the walls of the outside part of the cave. (No, I did not let the kids go into the cave, way to dangerous!)

The air coming out of the cave was so cold! Daniel loved touching the ice walls.

This is a shot of the inside of the cave. The kids wanted to know why it was "raining" in the cave. The ice was melting all over inside the cave.

This was our first look of at the cave. I was surprised at how big it was! You can kind of see the people standing around it in the picture.

Noah, Emma, Emily and Daniel sitting just outside the cave. It was pretty cold with the wind coming off the snow so we didn't stay very long.

My mom aka Manna and Emily.

I thought this was a funny picture of everyone. It was really hard to get everyone to sit still for a picture!

Daniel

We ran into Kendall's manager from work up at the caves and he was nice enough to take a picture of us.

Family picture.

Noah loved to hide along the trail and then jump out at us. Can you find him in this picture?

Emma and Noah in the hiding place under the tree.

One last break before the end of the trail. It was a wonderful day with minimal whining. We were smart and took a stroller this time so we didn't have to break our backs carrying Daniel.