Our next camping trip was up to Idaho for a Liljenquist Reunion. We stayed at the Apen Acres campground in Squirrel, Idaho. It was a nice place to camp. It was right on a golf course, which Mike and my brothers took advantage of. The first night was great. My parents and Erin and Krista camped by us. The kids had a great time with their Aunts as usual. On Saturday, after the reunion, we went to Cave Falls. The falls were cool to look at, we used to be able to walk in the cave near the falls, but it was blocked off. So, that was a little disappointing. Kaylee was so excited to be so close to the falls. As we were leaving it started to rain and hail. We were hoping the storm went around or campsite, but it didn't. When we got back our tent was completely caved in with heavy, slushy hail. It was still raining when we got there at about 5:30 and on the menu that night was hot dogs, of course! We waited in the car until 7:00 until the rain died down. Mike was able to make a small fire with the couple of logs we had left in our van. We had sort-of cooked hot dogs, bundled ourselves up real good and went to bed. It was so cold! The kids did surprisingly well. In the morning we got up and went in the van to warm up. We spent most of the morning in the warm van, packed up as quick as possible and drove up to Yellowstone. We happen to be up there on Free National Parks weekend, which was nice. On the way to Old Faithful we had some silly buffalo running up the rode, the kids thought that was pretty cool. They were also quite impressed with Old Faithful as well. It was still really cold that day, so we saw Old Faithful and drove home. Overall it was a good trip. It was colder and wetter than we had planned, but we still had a good time!
(We let Kaylee take some pictures on the road to Old Faithful)
