Yellowstone

We went to Yellowstone National Park with Jennifer's family. We were there 5 days.

Of course, we had to see Old Faithful. It goes off once every 90 minutes. We got there one hour before it went off. We had a nice rest and met a few nice people as we waited. It was worth the wait.

We saw many hot pots. They looked so clean and pure. They made me thirsty looking at them. You must know that you can't drink them. The water is near 100 degrees and full of too many minerals. They smell like sulfur.

Our favorite hot pot was not pure water. It was full of mud. Hot air was escaping from deep in the earth. This caused the mud to bubble up and shoot up in the air. Sometimes it shot as high as 10 or 15 feet in the air.

We hiked to the bottom of a giant water fall. The climb would have been very dangerous, however the park service put in some nice metal steps all the way down. It was still a long hike down and back up. The kids could not walk that far and had to be carried. The next day all of our legs were sore.

The mist at the bottom of the waterfall made a rainbow.

We saw many elk, buffalo, deer, ducks and crows. The boys loved it. Seth kept calling the crows, eagles. We swam in the pool at the condo every night and just relaxed in the hot tub. The boys loved that too.

It was an 8 hour drive, but it went by rather quickly. We listened to a book on tape. We enjoyed the drive too.