We went camping at Lava Hot Springs Aug 5-7. We stopped at Ross Park in Pocatello on our way there. It is such a great place for kids!
The perfect depth for the little ones.
My favorite part was the lazy river, so relaxing.
That night, we found a campground and this is what we saw the next morning, geese.
Our tent was right next to the river. I took the above picture, then turned and took the second.
We were meeting Brock, Montana & Melanie for our second night of camping. This is a park we stopped at for a bit for the kids to play.
Our next camp was at Smith's Trout Haven. The boys played with Peyton & Mason in the grass.
Both nights we were there, it was really windy & rainy in the evening. Brady doesn't seem to like the umbrella much.
The last day, we went to the pool in Lava. Cole went down the slide quite a bit.
It even started raining today and they closed the pool due to lightning so we just left.
We really had a fun weekend.
I decided work during the beet harvest this year. It only lasted a few weeks but we worked 14 hour days 6 days a week. I worked past Rupert in like Minidoka or somewhere close to that.
I worked in a tarehouse shown above on a piler.
Trucks pull up and my job was to track the truck number and take samples from every 3rd truck from the same grower and field. Beets are fed onto a hopper and carried up, the dirt is filtered onto another belt that is weighed and then the beets are dumped into a huge pile to be carried away later. The samples come through a tube into a bag.
Here's a picture of a busy day. We had 3 pilers at our dump. I was helping out in #1 for a little bit.
I worked in piler #2. The sampling was a lot different than the other two pilers. In ours, we had to place a bucket onto a lever that would catch beets. Then we took it inside and dumped it onto a tray with a bag attached at the bottom and then we would pick up the bag and toss it into a crate down below. Our piler was also up high, not on the ground like the others.
This was the biggest beet I saw, also the first one to be captured in my bucket. It was HUGE!
My co-worker Faith! We had so much fun and we carpooled together.
The end of the season view of all 3 dumps.
We thought it would be fun to climb the beets.
