We spent the night at the Yellowstone Valley Inn. It was in a pretty little valley with lot's of rock formations everywhere. We headed to Yellowstone as early as we could because we wanted to see some animals, and we figured they would be more active in the morning hours. We were driving around a corner and this Buffalo was just walking down the side of the rode, not in the middle or in our lane or the other lane but on the other side of the white line, I thought that was funny.
Big herd of Buffalo's, the only animals we saw while we were there. I've been to Yellowstone a couple of times now and still haven't seen a bear. I guess if I ever encounter a bear maybe I will be glad about that :)
When we got to the Old Faithful area, it was forecasting the next eruption to be at 12:20, so we headed out and waited and waited.......
and waited some more, took pictures of other waiters :) Took lot's of pictures of the almost eruptions :) Then took more of the actual eruption, a park ranger said that on average the geyser will go 130 feet in the air, it kept going for a good 3 minutes or so. Pretty impressive and on a schedule, can't ask mother nature to be more accurate than that I guess :)
We walked around and looked at some of the pools, they really do look cool. Kind of scary to think how hot they are. I'm glad we made it to Yellowstone, it is a fascinating area.
After Yellowstone we went to Jackie and Tyler's house. We walked around the BYU-I campus and just enjoyed being with family. They made us yummy pizza and Tyler made us snickerdoodles, one of my all time favorite cookies :) It was fun to see my kid's all together and having a good time. Tyler and Jackie are in school now and so we didn't stay long, they needed to study. We headed back to our hotel and talked about how happy we were that this was our last night in a hotel :) One more day and we will be home!
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Is old faithful more faithful now? When we visited, it was off schedule :)
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