Lava Hot Springs, Here we Come!!!

First Day of school and we are sick of it. No I'm kidding. Jesse gave me a Gift Certificate for our anniversary back in May and I finally cashed it in. I figured out that it would be a good time to go and Heidi was more than willing to stay the night with the boys and get them up and ready for school tomorrow. I'm excited to spend the next 24 hours with Jesse. 

I have never been to Lava Hot Springs and it has been years for Jesse. I think he was about Ryker's age when he was there. The drive was only a couple of hours but it went by really fast as we talked together. We were laughing too how we ironically were driving to Idaho the day AFTER the big eclipse event that most of Utah went up there for.  

When we arrived in town we found our hotel and checked in. We were laughing to ourselves about how small the town was and how (for lack of a better description) White Trash it kinda was. But it had the small town charm.

We found a place to eat dinner and then went back to the Inn to relax in the natural Hot Pools the had. The whole night we just kept laughing about everything being so ghetto. The room itself looked like it had the original bedspread from when the Inn was built. And it's like they were trying to cover up a terrible smell because the room was thick with the sent of  a floral FaBreeze smell. The TV was an old school box kind too. Which this is all just fine, it was just a commical situation that kept us laughing all night long.

When we were chilling in the Natural Hot Spring Pools at the Inn it reminded us of an unforgettable experience we had 10 or 11 years ago.  We were in the infancy of our marriage and some of our closest friends (Bret and Courtney Hutchings) joined us on a whim (at night) to hike Diamond Fork Canyon up to the Fifth Water Hot Springs. But it was in the dead of winter so we hiked several miles through the snow to reach the pools. When we got there we stripped down to our swimming suits and hopped in the hot pools. We had such a blast and laughed about how crazy it was that we were coming home nearly the next morning.

I'm so grateful and so happy that all these years later I find myself more in love with this man of mine.