Friday, March 5, 2010

Quick trip to Death Valley, CA

Rhett decided to run a trail marathon inside Death Valley National Park, so we loaded up and made a fun overnight trip out of it.

While Rhett ran, I took the kids exploring. Here they are on the sand dunes!

They loved climbing in all of the soft sand. There were some pretty steep hills that we all went over.

Some more climbing on the dunes.

Here the kids are wishing we had brought some buckets and shovels but we had fun regardless.

We went on a short hike in "gold canyon".

Chase in Gold Canyon.

More hiking in gold Canyon.

More Gold Canyon - it was beautiful!

Cade and Lane posing with Old Dinah - the original engine for removing borax from the area.

Here is the whole photo of Old Dinah. Death Valley was a blast. It even rained on us. We want to go back next winter and spend some more time exploring. (just remember not to visit in the summer - HOT).