Saturday, July 18, 2009

Yellowstone

Yellowstone was fast and furious. We got a late start at it, but bought a year pass so will be back! I think I am going to make Toby take me there instead of Lagoon for our anniversary! :) We hit Old Faithful, because you just have to everytime you go....Of course when we got there it had just gone off so we had an hour to kill.
So we went to the Old Faithful Inn. It is such a gorgeous place! The wood work is amazing! All the wood is from Yellowstone! I won't go into the whole history, but I love this place. I have even stayed in one of the rooms that is the same as when it was first built!




I have seen it so many times and everytime I am just in awe. Isn't it wonderful that God gives us puny little humans the capability to build these sorts of things!After ice cream, thanks Papa, we headed back and watched Old Faithful.
Belle was so impressed and Gabe just kept asking when "Old Grateful" was going to explode again. :)
A picture of part of the outside of the lodge as we were driving away.
Momma and baby buffalo ( or bison to be technically correct! )
Even though they give you a paper when you go into the park that tells you to stay a safe distance away......there were people walking up to 10 feet of these guys taking pictures. We were in the car and heard a ranger tell someone to move away. Someone last week was charged and injured by one.

To end the Yellowstone day we stopped at Midway Geyser Basin. While we waited for people to get back from the bathroom, the kids made this a teeter toter and Micah had fun with them.
The vast array of colors is just spellbinding!
Noah decided Addey was his buddy and didn't even want to hold momma's hand. "No, my buddy Addey."
Julie was the leader here. Although some ruckus was had over that fact, the boys constantly trying to get ahead of her, she stayed the leader.
Gabe had blisters on his feet so Desi gave him a piggy back ride for a little bit. Notice in the background the boys right on Julie's tail waiting to get ahead of her! LOLJust think this looked cool!
Like I said, the colors!
The crew in our van.
On our way out.
Julie got the camera and took a picture of her feet. Not sure why, but I thought it was cute!


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