A trip to Yellowstone finished off our vacation. The boys drove up with Grandpa, Uncle Wayne, Uncle Kelly and Kacey two days before us for their fishing trip. This was the first time Bryce and Ty fished in Yellowstone. Dave and Ty really enjoyed the fishing, Bryce did too, but he was very tired from the hike in and slept through the best of the fishing. Grandma, Paige, Brett and I drove up early enough to see a few sites before heading to our campsite. We were suprised to find backpacks waiting for us. They guys had all hiked out early and were out looking for us (we didn't arrive at the campsite until after dark.) But, soon everyone was rounded up for a night of camping under a very starry sky. Everyone, but Dave, the kids and I headed back to Utah the following evening, while we spent some fun days with the kids exploring the park. We discussed some other options for our final day, even so much as heading to Mount Rushmore, but decided we were too tired to add that much driving to the trip. So we stayed at Yellowstone and enjoyed finding some things we hadn't seen before.
Seeing the wildlife is always one of the most fun things. Paige took this picture (from the car) of a Bison crossing the road.
The Dragon's Mouth is one of my favorite things the bubble and hissing and steam are really neat.
We dodged several rainstorms through out our stay and saw some beautiful rainbows, we came back to camp everynight having to fix our tents that tried to blow away in the storms.
This elk was sitting right in the middle of a bunch of hot pools.
My favorite was this Grizzly Bear taking a stroll across a meadow!
The steam and flowing water are really amazing. This waterfall comes from a hot pool into the river.
At this spot we saw four geysers erupting at the same time, it was very cool.
The colors are amazing and most of the pools are very stinky!
I heard that they don't even know how many waterfalls there are in the park, but we saw some really pretty ones.
The kids all had a great time, except for when Paige hurt her knee and hobbled around the last day. And Brett, who was bored " All it is is walking to see hot water!" We finished our stay by seeing Old Faithful erupt at sunset, for some reason, we didn't have a camera with us, but it was beautiful.
Seeing the wildlife is always one of the most fun things. Paige took this picture (from the car) of a Bison crossing the road.
The Dragon's Mouth is one of my favorite things the bubble and hissing and steam are really neat.
We dodged several rainstorms through out our stay and saw some beautiful rainbows, we came back to camp everynight having to fix our tents that tried to blow away in the storms.
This elk was sitting right in the middle of a bunch of hot pools.
My favorite was this Grizzly Bear taking a stroll across a meadow!
The steam and flowing water are really amazing. This waterfall comes from a hot pool into the river.
At this spot we saw four geysers erupting at the same time, it was very cool.
The colors are amazing and most of the pools are very stinky!
I heard that they don't even know how many waterfalls there are in the park, but we saw some really pretty ones.
The kids all had a great time, except for when Paige hurt her knee and hobbled around the last day. And Brett, who was bored " All it is is walking to see hot water!" We finished our stay by seeing Old Faithful erupt at sunset, for some reason, we didn't have a camera with us, but it was beautiful.
3 comments:
we are heading to Yellowstone next week. I think my little man will be a lot like your Brett... hoping we will make it through. Any tips?
To be honest, one of my kids favorite things was when Dave went on a hike(no one else wanted to go) and they tried to get 100 people to wave at them before he got back! I guess my advice would be to look for something "different" at each stop. Don't say "We are looking at 'another' pretty pool. Count animals. find the stinkiest pool. etc. Good Luck, have fun!
Yellowstone is one of my favorite places. I was up there 3 years ago with teachers for a study of extremifiles as they would relate to life on other planets. We were at Montana State in Bozeman for a couple of days then spent several days in the field at the park getting to go to places the public doesn't get to go to. It is a stinky place and I think it will blow again one day. We have camped there as well....great memories!
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