Lava Hot Springs

These last two weeks have been so crazy so I need to play catch up since a lot has gone one. Over Father's Day we went with Blake's family to Lava Hot Springs. We rented a place called the Yellow Submarine. I think the people that rented it out were hippies, but it was the cleanest place I've stayed in. They hovered a lot and that is probably why it was clean. We were afraid that our kids we ruin something the whole time. It was pretty cold when we went (in the 60's) but we still had a lot of fun. I only have a couple of pictures of us at the hot pots because other than that it rained and I didn't want my camera ruined. We spent most of our time in the hot pots because the pool was way too cold for my liking. Our place had a fire pit and the kids enjoyed roasting marshmallows and we slept in bunk beds. We thought we would all be able to stay in this place, but the people renting it out only allowed a max of 8 people. We cheated and had 9 because we didn't count Gerrit since he doesn't take up very much space and we brought him a playpen to sleep in. He didn't sleep good at all and whined most of the night. By 5am he was up so he and I went on a little walk. The weather was perfect for a walk. Since I have a hard time sitting around I took the kids to the park that I saw earlier on my walk that was just down the street at about 9am. The pool didn't open until 11am and of course that is when it began to rain. The second night Blake's allergies were so bad that he had to use his inhaler quite a bit and couldn't sleep. We had a lot of fun, but we were excited to come home to get some sleep.

We couldn't leave Lava without getting ice cream from the Ice Cream Shop and having Grandma buy them a souvenir. Kameni and Deilen chose cork guns and Kaymin chose a drum.