Monday, October 25, 2010

Yellowstone!

This weekend Jake and I went to Yellowstone!

First we stopped on the side of the rode and walked down by the river to get a closer look at these animals!



We stopped at a place called firehole spot... Or something. It was cool!

We put our fingers in the water. HOT. haha

It's so cool to me.

After that we continued towards Old Faithful! We stopped here to see this big elk or something that was right on the side of the rode!

He was right there so close! It was exciting

We also saw a ton of bison throughout the drive.

At one point we couldn't even drive we had to inch our way through them!

It was way cool!


We also stopped at Midway Geyser. It was SO cool!

The ground looked like this all around the board path we walked on

I thought this blue and orange looked pretty together!

At the beginning of midway geyser, you walk across this huge bridge and you can see where the geyser runs into the river.

It is so pretty.


I think this next set of pictures is from the lower geyser... It was just another one of the stops we made on our way to Old Faithful!

This was called painted springs I think. It looked like orange bubbling mud.

We were challenged at taking pictures of ourselves for a little bit... Even though we had a front lcd screen made just for taking pics of yourself haha.....

Attempt 1 hahaha

Attempt like 5... We got it! But my head was in the way of the exploding geyser.

After that some guy asked if he could take our picture for us... LOL
It turned out good, thank you, sir!

This was at lower basin I believe.... It was a fun walk!

When we got to Old Faithful the timing was perfect. It went off like 5 minutes after we got there. It was cool. After it went off we went into the visitors center and watched a 15 minute movie about the geysers in Yellowstone. It was interesting!
This was taken after Old Faithful went off, it was starting to go back down.


After we saw Old Faithful we decided to go to Mammoth Springs!
This tree was just so cool we had to take a picture on it!

Most of Mammoth Springs geyser was dead but there were a few parts that still had water and color like this one and...

This one.

Most of it looked like this though.

Or this.

But it was way fun and cool to explore!

It was a great weekend!! :)

6 comments:

Sant Family said...

I LOVE all the pictures! Yellowstone is so pretty! Mamu doesn't remember it so we are going to go through it on our way to Washington after Ben graduates.

So glad you get to really experience Idaho. It is a really pretty place.

And by the way, you probably drove right past your Great Grandma's house in Teton and your Great Uncle Ryan's farm in Victor. That cute little town Driggs is where Grandpa Hathaway grew up and your Hathaway Greats were Postmaster and Postmistress at the Post Office.

Love you! Mom

Shelli said...

I love Yellowstone. My sis lives right by it, so we get to go often. It IS beautiful. Love all your pics!

Sant Family said...

Glad you are having such a great time. We have always loved visiting Yellowstone. Yogi must be hibernating this time of year or you would have likely seen him, too.

Love and miss you,
Dad

Kent said...

Yellowstone is indeed a fun place to visit. I have been going there since I can remember. Again, WHO is the guy you are with????? Ole' whatz his name? You might be able to arrange a trip through the Park this winter when there is lots of snow. Thanks for sharing.

Sara, Nick, and kids said...

o man- yellowstone!? you lucky duck! this side of the country is such a bummer. we love yellowstone- looks like you got some really awesome pics :)
so yeah.... who's the bf?????

Elizabeth said...

How fun! I love your pictures! I too want to know......are things serious with this guy? What are his intentions with your fathers daughter? Is he a good guy? And does he treat you like a daughter of God? Just wondering!!!!! LOL Glad you are having so much fun at college!