AKA Yellowstone. Okay it wasn't really THAT stinky, but the day we walked by the geysers, it happened to be windy, so the smell caused by the Hydrogen Sulfide was quite apparent (yes, I looked that up). Kate thought it smelled like noodles... I was surprised my pregnant, nauseated sister didn't lose her breakfast.My parents rented this beautiful cabin for the entire family.
We visited Firehole Falls.We were in a traffic jam because of one bison - he just couldn't figure out how to get off of the road! Luckily a ranger came to help him - poor bison is probably traumatized now.
We skipped rocks. Craig tried to get his to skip all the way across - look at that determination!
We saw pretty blue geysers - I wanted to jump in this one.
We (meaning Craig) gave lots of piggy backs. Claire is on a picture strike and was trying to cover her face in most pictures. We did manage to get a few pictures out of her - probably with some sort of bribery...
We watched Old Faithful. A few minutes before Old Faithful erupted, an old man approached us in a panic and asked what time the "event" was starting. We must have looked confused because he quickly ran off and we looked at each other and said "what event?" Come to find out, he was asking about Old Faithful - since when was that considered an "event"? We thought there may be some sort of race going on that day. Nope.
We sipped hot chocolate on the porch of Old Faithful Inn.
We went to Mammoth Hot Springs...
...where there were tons of these signs, warning about the dangerous elk. We didn't see any elk, but my brother and his family have pictures of elk lounging around the buildings and in the parks. Glad we had these signs, so we wouldn't be tempted to approach the elk...
On our way back home, we stopped at the Mesa Falls - so pretty!