2012/07/08 – Sunday – Vacation - Day 17 - Upstream Lava

We left at 9:00 and our first stop was at Big Hole National Battlefield.

Amanda finished another JR Ranger program.

The first park of the drive was slow up and over and winding along.

For most of the day we were going up stream on the Salmon River.  We stopped along the river for lunch.  I was able to let the dogs run around frolicking in the tall grass.

We are stopped for the night in the Craters of the Moon National Monument campground.

We unloaded the van and headed over to the park visitor center.  We drove the loop road in the park. We also did two of the lava tubes.

We drove back into town some 20 miles away for dinner at a small place (the only place in town open on a Sunday.)

Amanda, Mom M and I attend a ranger program at 9:30, we learned about raptors and of course which ones visits the park.  This would give Amanda all the requirements for the JR Ranger program.  We will go in the morning so she can turn it in and get her badge.