We spent the day in Yellowstone again. While driving into the park we hit a little traffic jam. It turned out the be a buffalo walking down the road. It was so cool, he was on his side of the road going the correct way.
We spent most of our time at Old Faithful. The boys worked on their junior ranger booklet and listened to a ranger talk about geysers. They listened very well and asked very good questions. While at the ranger talk we met another homeschool family from Texas. They are doing close to the same trip we are, they were just going the other way. We went south first, they went north first. We waited for Old Faithful to erupt and it was pretty awesome. Then we had lunch and while we were leaving the resturant/lodge we got to see it erupt again from a big viewing window they had. It is way colder here than I expected it to be, It was 48 most of the day but by about 4 pm it finally got to 61.
Then we stopped by the Black Sand Basen on the way back out of the park. There are so many beautiful geyers and springs here! Over half of the worlds geothermic features are here in Yellowstone. An ineresting fact the ranger told us is that it takes 500 years for rain and snow to seep down to the magma rocks were it gets heated and then pushed back up again.
We got back to the hotel in time for the boys to swim and I did a couple more loads of laundry. Not an easy thing when there are only two washers and dryers. I guess its lucky that they had them at all.
3 comments:
What a fantastic trip you are having so far! We really need to plan another trip to Yellowstone. I am loving all the pictures. They are bringing back fun memories.
You are inspiring me to plan a trip like this. I don't know when...but I definitely would love to do it. Sounds like you guys are having a great time!
Sheri,
DO IT. And LOOK how much fun she had in Nebraska!!!!!!!!!!!
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