This past weekend Tyson, Logan, and I drove up to Rexburg, Idaho to visit Logan's girlfriend Christine and one of Tyson's old mission buddies, Kyle. While visiting them we decided to go visit Yellowstone National Park since we were already so close and none of us had ever been.
Wow, was I glad we decided to go. Yellowstone is amazing!
First we went and watched Old Faithful explode. Boy, is she faithful!
It was so fun to have Kyle and Christine there with us. Kyle was a wonderful tour guide....
"You can tell that it's an aspen tree, because the way it is"
"Nature is neat"
"Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip!"
Then we walked along the pathways to find some smaller geysers.
I was so tempted to just throw my suit on and hop in the "natural hot tubs", which I am sure I would regret immediately after. Not to mention the trouble I would be in for disturbing a "FRAGILE THERMAL AREA". Still, I was very tempted.
After exploring some more we went and watched the Grand Geyser. It was probably my favorite geyser, even over Old Faithful. It was so fun to sit up closer and feel the heat from the water.
After watching the Grand Geyser we headed back to the car and saw some more beautiful views.
On our way out of the park we noticed TONS of people had pulled their cars over on the sides of the road and were gathered out in a huge field. Naturally, we were curious to see what was going on, so we stopped and joined them.
As we made our way over to the crowd of people, we noticed about 100 yards away up on the hillside was a HUGE bear! I was so excited because "seeing a bear" was definitely on my Yellowstone checklist. I was even just complaining in the car that we were leaving before I got to see one. So I was thrilled. Later down the road we got stuck for 45 minutes in stand-still traffic, only find out later that we were stopped because of a herd of buffalo that decided to take over the road for their evening stroll. It was pretty amazing to be that close and see how huge these animals really were.
I can't wait to go back one day and do some more exploring of this beautiful park!
