Ice Cave Date

This really fun, cute RM invited me to go with him and his friends to tour the ice caves about an hour away from Rexburg. Sure, i said, so he picked me up at 6:40. :)

When we turned off the road that takes us over to the cave site, we all had to park and climb in the back of one of the guy's 4 wheel truck, we soon found out why...

so many people have come back there when it was really wet or snowy and muddy. So when the car drives over it, there is so many groves and tire marks it was so hard to drive through. There was GIANT puddles of muddy water that we often had to plow through... our driver would just gas the truck and we would go flying through the mud! Yah, lots of fun for those of us in the back! :) Nah, it wasn't too bad but we did get pretty muddy. :) So that's how we got to the caves.

When we hiked into the caves, wow, it was cold and wet but oh so much fun and pretty down there. :) If you've ever seen Ice Age, when they are slipping and sliding down the tunnels of ice in little slide slots, well that's exactly what we were doing. There was mountains and walls of just staight thick, ice. And when you put your flashlight on it, it would glow a sort of blue- it looked so cool!

You climbed and twisted and got through to big caverns and then you'd think it was a dead end, but nope, someone had groved a tunnel in the ice that goes underneath the rock and you pop out in another huge cavern! It was very hard to climb on the ice, sometimes there was nothing but slippery ice that you had to sort of wiggle to get through to move forward, but it was very fun.

The cave only goes to a dead end, but when you get there, there's this giant ice mountain that you can climb up, sit down, and slide all the way down! We got some great Kodak moments from that. :)
Then of course, we have to hike all the way back out of the ice, which was kind of hard to do, seeing that we slide down half the way. :) we made it, then took the long, muddy drive back to the cars, then took a side trip to Wendy's. :)

All in all, a very fun, exciting time. :) My date was quite the gentleman and so easy to talk too, we talked about his mission (he went to Taiwan so he had some very interesting stories), what was the weirdest thing to get used to when he got back, how's he liking school, etc. Fun kid. Don't worry- he's just a good hang out buddy! :)