Yellowstone #2

 Day #2 of Yellowstone brought Black Cauldron Mud Pots, Upper and Lower Falls, Mammoth Springs, buffalo, and elk.

Part of keeping Camille entertained involved Grandma and Grandpa letting her use their camera. They likely have over a thousand random Camille photos.

Spooky!!!!!

This herd of buffalo walked across our road. It was so cool!

Claire found a bear claw. It was the closest we came to seeing a bear.

Audra and I took a hike that went down to the top of Lower Falls. It was pretty awesome to be on top of the waterfall, but it also was creepy and gave me a little bit of vertigo!

Mammoth Hot Springs:

The cabin was wonderful! The only problem was that because of Covid they removed all fridges and microwaves from all the cabins in the park. I had carefully planned meals for the entire week, but they required a microwave. So, for the last night, Grandpa bought us all hamburgers. Nobody complained.

There were elk EVERYWHERE- there were hundreds of them, and they had rangers directing people and traffic to keep the herd safe. It was really cool!

Yellowstone #1

 On Wednesday we woke up at 5:30 to make the hour long drive to Yellowstone. Day #1 saw all the big highlights: mud pots at West Thumb, Grand Prismatic Pool, Old Faithful, buffalo, waterfalls (though not the Upper and Lower Falls), elk, and so much more!

Don't jump in! Claire does, however, want to go scuba diving in these pots.

We hiked up to get an overview of Grand Prism. While there, we saw someone propose to his girlfriend! She said yes! What a beautiful place to propose, but the girls and I all decided it wouldn't be cool to be proposed to in front of so many people.

We just got lucky that White Dome Geyser was spraying while we drove by, but we quickly stopped and ran into the spray and got soaked! I think this was the favorite part of the trip for the girls- it was pretty fun!

Camille LOVED having her picture taken!

The first night we stayed at cabins on Yellowstone Lake. The next night we stayed at Mammoth Hot Springs.