Lava Hot Springs

So the friends were called and plans were made on one of our last free days before school starts.  Let's go swimming at Lava!  Yes!  Fun stuff - lots of water slides and such!  Okay!  Here we go!  Three moms and TEN kids in tow.  We get up early, pack lunches, drive and get excited --- and then we arrive!!  Oh the swimming joy!!

....... And WHAT?!?  It is closed?  Why?  Who did this?  Whatever do you mean?  CLOSED???

Now three moms and ten kids are standing glumly in an empty parking lot.  Oh the misery! 
Hey -- isn't this a movie?

Well, now we are in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho at 11:00 in the morning with not much to do.  So we had lunch at a park, were kinda sad, and then noticed . . . hey!  Aren't those tubes for rent?  Really big raft-like tubes?  That looks kinda fun . . . .

So we floated some local river on fun tubes instead!  And we did have fun.

So why are all my photos kinda funky?  A little bit blurry and bright?  I was asking myself the same thing.  I couldn't figure it out.  Until --- I uploaded them all and see this at the beginning of all the photos-

And yep I turned my camera around and found a very large smear on the lens.  If you only knew the extent of the troubles that this kid creates.  :  )
But we did have a great day and a really fun time.  I guess Lava will wait until next year. . . . .