Yellowstone

The kids and I took a little mini-vacation with some of my family. My niece Katie was performing in the opera at BYU-Idaho and so we drove the 4+ hours to watch her. While we were there we drove up into yellowstone. For kids yellowstone is kind of just a day in the car, they kept asking when are we going to be there and I would say, "we are there!" It was still a lot of fun! This is most of our group by a pretty waterfall above Jenny's Lake A boat ride around Jenny's lake We stopped at some "hotpots" and they stunk like sulfer. There was all this mist coming up off the ground and it really was pretty gross, but everyone else was walking around taking pictures so we followed suit. Notice the buffalo in the background. Carter didn't want to be in this picture but I had Hanna hold him there and told him he would thank me for it one day :) I'm sure there will come a time when he wonders if he saw a buffalo when he was in Yellowstone and now I have the picture to prove he did! As a side note: Old Faithful went off while we were eating lunch about a mile away and we saw the steam shooting up in the air. The traffic was so bad that we decided that was good enough because we didn't want to wait another 90 minutes for it to go off again. Now I'm thinking maybe we are pary poopers!