Yellowstone Part Two

Day three Mama and Rick joined all of us! Wish Coley, Toby, and Gabby could have been there too.  We went to see Old Faithful and drove around the West side of the park. That night back in the RV was really fun - high school sleepover style. There may or may not have been an attempt to light a fart on fire [the attempt was unsuccessful]. 

At this particular continental divide there is a little pond. One side of the pond flows to the East and one side flows out to the West. It was pretty cool.

Viv and Jensen forgot the carrier for Dunken. Jordan and I didn't mind. We just took all the chances we could to hold the little bean. 

This geyser is called Beehive Geyser. It's one of the more rare geysers in the park and it was erupting the same time as Old Faithful. I think it took away some of Old Faithful's steam (both figuratively and literally). 

Of course we saw a lot of hydrothermals. They really are amazing. We kept talking about what it must have been like for the first people to ever come to this part of the United States. I mean you're just walking along the same old forest and BAM! A geyser erupts or you come across these beautiful pools of hot water. 

Viv and Jensen left in the morning of our fourth day to head to Canada so we spent the rest of the day with Mama and Rick. If you find yourself in Yellowstone, take the time to drive around at dusk. We left Mama and Rick's campground to head back to ours just as the sun was setting and there were so many citters out! We saw another bear and so many bison. The RV was surrounded by them!

Day five we did a bit more sight seeing on our own and then met Mama and Rick in West Yellowstone for lunch. They went back to Twin Falls and Jordan and I stayed in West Yellowstone for the night.


The old lodges in the park were incredible. I know I keep saying that, but they really were. The Old Faithful Inn was built in 1904 out of logs and limbs.

One of the lodges overlooks Yellowstone Lake. Jordan would have gone there every evening to relax if he could have.

I think Jordan was a little disappointed at what the campground looked like. We stayed at different camp sites located on either side of the park. The first campground was definitely a bit crowded. Here's what it looks like coming back with everyone's fires burning. We stayed at our second campground just for one night and it was much better. 

Until next time, Yellowstone! 

...One last bison picture for good measure....

Yellowstone Part One

Yellowstone!!!!! We went to Yellowstone few weeks ago! Jordan was feeling a little under the weather and it was COLD. Did I mention it was cold? It snowed quite a bit! When we pulled into the park it was snowing pretty hard. It continued to snow all day so we took it pretty easy.

At the end of the day I got to take a shower! A glorious shower! I think I was going on day four or five since the last one. Eek! We went to one of the campgrounds in Yellowstone that has pay showers and I could make the shower as hot and long as I wanted. I also dried and straightened my hair. I'm sure other campers taking showers thought I was a diva for fixing my hair, but it was so nice :) Our RV has a shower, but the hot water heater doesn't work and it had been too cold to use the shower without hot water. 

Day two in Yellowstone Jordan and I drove up the East side of the park to see everything. One of the first things we came across was a herd of bison trying to cross a bridge.

We drove to Artist Point to see the view of the Lower Falls. It's one of the more crowded places in the park, but they really are beautiful. We also drove to Upper Falls and hiked down to see them up-close. It was a beast hike on the way up!

At one of our stops, a herd of bison was on a hill a little ways away and they all started to run down the hill at once. One big male started to run straight at us! Jordan was up the board walk a little ways and the bison was running up to him. I ran down the board walk and grabbed a little girl for safety. Maybe not the best idea :) You can see the big bison a little in the video before Jordan turns and runs away himself.

After the crazyness of the bison running, Jordan and I kept going up the path and we saw a grizzly bear! I think that was what made the bison run.

We took a few small hikes around the area and got to see some pretty cool stuff including a lot of hydrothermals and the Hotel and Lodge in the lakes area. If you look close you can see Suzy relaxing in a rocking chair on the lodge porch.

Later that night we were joined by Vivian, Jensen and baby Dunken.