Trip to Spokane with Adah, Eli and Sam
All excited for Children's Museum
It's Sam's Birthday, he enjoys the river system
Eli is a water table engineer
Adah enjoys a visit to the tropics.
Time to go back home...
Birthday party time
THE DINO TRIP with Levi & Brandon
We start in Richland, Margaret and the Concord Grapes
Brandon greets a sheep at the Oregon Trail Museum in Baker City
The view toward Baker City from the museum
Brandon and Levi stand with the pioneers
Pioneer portraits of Brenda? and Levi
On to Craters of the Moon National Monument
Jean in one of the extensive lava tube caves in the area
Brandon climbing over rocks
Levi at the same location, where the roof has fallen in
It's The Spike (replica) at Golden Spike National Historic Site near Promontory, Utah
The cross tie with the plaque is where the spike was driven 140 years ago
The Union Pacific No. 119 pulls up to meet the Jupiter (Central Pacific No. 60)
The replicas together...
The real ones in 1869
The Golden Spike driven again in this reenactment
Jean and Audrey compare surgery notes - Donna May is putting lunch together
Levi at Thanksgiving Point Prehistoric Life Museum
Look out for the ancient shark!
Brandon and Levi pitch in to bring down the Mammoth
Dinosaur museum in Price, Utah
At the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry Museum out in the desert
Another predator...
Brandon and Levi put a dinosaur skull together
Brandon and Levi on trail safety duty
Levi touches a dinosaur bone in the rock
On the trail
Now which way would you turn? We went through the rain storm later
Hmm, this is not the next motel I hope
Brandon and Tom take a hike in Arches National Park
Brandon and Tom both took this picture.
Question: Can you find the flaw in this photo? It's been edited to add Tom.
"Walking in their footsteps..." Levi and Brandon pointing to what is thought to be Allosaurus footprints at Copper Ridge, north of Arches National Park
Brandon and Levi try to match the dinosaur smile outside the Vernal Utah Museum
Yep, it's another prehistoric life museum, this one at BYU, Provo
The Giant Ground Sloth is the one in the middle
Brandon's 3-D tee shirt... but you need colored glasses... red left, blue right
Brandon and Levi walk on water... it's the Salt Flats under water
Tom's panorama - click to see the person walking
Zahooz game place in Boise Idaho, its a long way to our next motel in Cambridge Idaho...
... that ended up being a room in an old trailer, we called the place we had reserved and told him we were arriving that afternoon. But he gave the room to someone else! With some help, got this at the Gateway Cafe and Inn... down towards the Snake River.
8 by 10 room, picture taken from bathroom door... They did accommodate us and
their Cafe was nice the next morning for breakfast.
After breakfast was to continue the drive down to the Snake River and North to Hells Canyon Dam where our jet boat was waiting.
Bumpy but fun ride...
Levi and I went with the others on a hike to see the roughest section
Then it was back to the car...
and the long trip through Oregon to Richland.
The next day cherry picking with Margaret in Kennewick near Richland
Bing cherries, ready to pick
Before leaving for home, we watch Cool Desert Nights car parade in Richland
