Yellowstone

The morning after the backyard camp out, we headed up to Yellowstone National Park. It was a nice day and we looked forward to spending time together and enjoying the scenery of Yellowstone. I actually have to admit that Yellowstone is NOT one of my favorite places, it's the same stuff over and over and if you've seen it once well, you get the picture. Here is a beautiful picture I took along our drive. Here are the kids at biscuit basin

Kenna over looking the top of the falls.

We entered the park at the West entrance and usually the roads are crowded with bison, this trip was completely different. We didn't see much wildlife at all and were very surprised. As we made out way around the lower loop, we finally came across some bison. This guy was seriously 4 feet from my window! He was huge and Emily was concerned that he would come closer to the car and she proceeded to scream, "shut the window, shut the window!" We were all laughing but she really was scared and lucky for us, he decided to just walk along side our car, too close for comfort! We watched him and he crossed the road behind us to a car and pooped on its hood! That really had us laughing!

Here is Jace at the sapphire pool at biscuit basin - The water is such a stunning color!

Lindsay, Ali and Kenna sitting on rocks near the falls

We made it Old Faithful and here are the kids waiting for it to erupt! You can see the steam coming up from the ground before the actual eruption.

There she blows!!

This was really cool. As we were watching Old Faithful erupt, off to the left, Beehive geyser was about to erupt too! One of the park rangers was telling us that Beehive only erupts once or twice a day and it only happens 2-3 times a year that it will erupt at the same time as Old Faithful. We had never seen Beehive before and so it was great to have been there one of the 2-3 times a year that it erupts along with Old Faithful! Beehive is a larger geyser than Old Faithful, Beehive will get to be 180-190 feet in the air while Old Faithful is only about 150 feet.

Here, Chris is teaching Jace to put his hands in the little stream flowing from sapphire pool at biscuit basin. It's warm water and Jace thought is was fun, even though you aren't supposed to be messing in the water.

We stopped along one of the paths at biscuit basin for a little family picture!

We had a great day exploring Yellowstone. The last time we went, Jace was just a few weeks old and Baylie didn't remember going either - they all thought it was fun and have asked to go back! This is one of Chris' favorite places to take a drive - it is fantastic that it's pretty much in our backyard, but give me a couple years before I'm ready to go back.