While driving into the park, we drove past three black bears, a big horned sheep and some younger ones, a lot of buffalo and many other fun animals. And where was my camera?! Packed!! The girls had a lot of fun following along on their checklist of animals that the ranger gave them upon arrival.
We camped in Yellowstone for a few nights with Paul's folks close to the Yellowstone Lake.
Smores for dessert every night!!! Yummy!!
Even though it was very very cold at night, he slept very well! Do you see him snuggling with his little "teddy", I think that is so very cute! It has been replaced with a new "teddy" that Grammy and Grampy bought for him from the park! Thanks guys, he loves it!
Yes, they dressed warm for the cold night awaiting them!!The first morning Paul's parents treated us to a boat tour of the park. The kids had a blast, however, it was a very foggy morning, therefore, I did not get any good pictures to share, besides this beautiful one of the foggy mountains.
Another day we went to Old Faithful and stopped along the way at the hot springs along the lake.
Grammy and Grampy helping Chase along the walk.
This little chipmunk was very entertaining for all of us. It didn't seem to be bothered by all of us just watching him eat. The kids just loved seeing something so small and cute.
It was amazing to me how far down I could see.
The next day we went and visited the falls and the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. All of us took the hike to the lower falls, not expecting it to be very long! Boy, were we wrong!! However, all of us survived! And it was worth it!!
Here is the view we saw! A lot for my eyes to take in!
The kids found a nice cubbie hole in a rock to crawl up into, as we were still taking in the view.
Just to the left of Paul's shoulder, where you see the Lower Water Fall is where we hiked down to, as shown in the pictures above.
Same water fall, different angle.
Paul who was born and raised in Arizona has never heard of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, so it was cool to go see. Plus, it was a tangible walk!!
We think this is a wolf! This was the only good picture I could get of him and this is with my zoom all the way out!
The kids never got sick of pointing out the buffalo. It was neat to see so many.
I zoomed out as much as I could!! This was a herd of elk we saw from the road.
I love seeing God's glory on this earth!
We also went to see the mud volcanoes, quite interesting. I did learn that the reason why there were so many dead trees around this area, was because of the very hot temperature the mud volcanoes are.
This was called Dragon's mouth in the mud volcanoes. You could hear the water splashing in the "mouth", as the steam rolled out.
Through out the whole trip the girls worked very hard on their "homework" to earn their Junior Ranger patch. They even got to wear a "real" ranger hat!!
