Almost Camping

We almost stayed at another Fire Lookout, this time with Daddy in North Idaho near the Canadian border. Once we got to the park, we drove for about 16 miles up a mountain on Friday along switchbacks for about an hour. We were amused at first by the snowflakes we were seeing and glad that we had some new warm sleeping bags. But the snow got deep fast the higher we went. We decided to turn around the second time the van got stuck. A park ranger in a Rhino reported 6 to 8 inches at the summit.

We ended up staying at a hotel with indoor water park and although I got a great deal at $129.00 for the room and family water park pass, it was the first summer we did not get to have a family camping trip.

Here are a few pictures of the cold kids playing in the snow before we surrendered and headed back down the mountain. JO was making us laugh as he hurried to squeeze as much snow-related fun into the few minutes we were stuck. He made a snow angel, had a snowball fight with RO, ate a big snowball, and wrote in snow with, um, yellow "ink."