Cathedral Gorge and Lehman Caves...

Merril bought a new International Scout and the seller lived up by Ely, NV.  Merril suggested we all go, take the RV, camp at Cathedral Gorge and go to Lehman caves.  So we started on an adventure.  Those RV windows are scary big and the kids may not have been properly restrained the entire time.

We got out of town a little before dinner and made it up to Cathedral Gorge around dusk.  We ate dinner and made a fire for s'mores.  During s'mores, it started to rain a little.  We stayed out under some trees for a bit but then decided to go in the RV and go to bed.  It rained with lightening and thunder a lot that night.  The next morning was cloudy but not rainy.  We had breakfast and the kids played around the campsite.

Julie was ready for breakfast.  She's my up and at 'em girl.

Mark gets carted around by his siblings more often than not.

By Daddy too.  This is my favorite shot of the trip!

Cathedral Gorge reminds me of the formations at Bryce Canyon, except on a much smaller scale.

Lehman caves were a few hours away into Northern Nevada so we headed up.  At the caves, Mark got strapped in for an hour-long tour.

In the first "room" of the caves, the lights were turned off (for effect) and after that, Mark could not be quieted down.  He fussed and crawled to get out of the pack.  He didn't have an afternoon nap and wouldn't be consoled.  Then Mikayla started throwing a bit of a fit so we had the ranger radio out that we needed an escort back up top.  Me, Mikayla, and Mark came out of the caves and Merril and the 3 older kids continued on the tour.  The caves had cool calcite formations like this:

The caves were kind of tight and Merril didn't snap a picture of the kids at all and the only one I got before I left was way overexposed and didn't turn out.  The one room I saw was amazing and I would recommend that place to anyone with kids.