Mini Vacation #2

For Mini Vacation #2, we visited Massacre Rocks State Park, Registration Rock and American Falls Dam.

Ellie woke up still feeling rather sick on Tuesday, she threw up twice before breakfast. Barry felt a bit bad for her, so he asked her what she wanted to do for the day.
She surprised us by saying she wanted to go HIKING.
SO hiking we went, and she only threw up once more and that was in the parking lot of Ridleys before we even made it out of town. :)

We hiked out to the overlook.

The gap in the cliff, is where an ancient waterfall, drainage from Lake Bonneville, flowed down into the reservoir

These rocks were carried and placed here by strong water currents.

My cute kids.

Ellie asked me. "Mom, can I climb that?" pointing up to the rocks. "I said, I have no idea, can you??"
Yep she can. Being a climber wasn't something I ever expected of Ellie, but she has found something she loves.

Even Lauren wanted to get in on the climbing.

Always a smile ready from my girl.

The kids and Barry went canoeing, it was a little cold for Lauren and I, so we stayed on the dock.

I thought these windmills were cool. Barry said the big ones cost more than 2 million dollars each and supply about 50 homes worth of electricity ...if they're running. Good thing the government subsidizes them ...with our tax dollars.

This silo is out in the middle of the reservoir, we wondered the story behind it.

American falls is all dammed off. It's rather ugly, but an impressive sight. The kids missed it, because they were all tired and asleep.


We went and saw registration rock, sorry no pictures. It was really neat to see the names carved from the 1800's. Even their writing looked different. A 7 year-old boy sketched a drawing of an Indian on a rock and signed and dated it. Later as an adult, a sculptor, he went back to inspect his drawing and signed and dated it again. -sorry no pic, couldn't get the flash right.

We had fried chicken, apples and corn chips for lunch, ...well except for Ellie, I let her lick some of the salt off the chips, because her stomach was still kindof feeling queasy, and I didn't want partially digested chicken all over the car. Aren't I nice?? :)

We came home and the kids said they wanted to go down to Utah for our next adventure, so we quickly packed a few things, forgetting most everything, and we're off on another adventure....