Yellowstone

We went to Yellowstone twice during our time in Montana. The second day that we went back we saw many cool things including a bear (verdict is out on whether it was a grizzly or a cinnamon colored black bear, it was pretty far away), a moose, buckelk, bison, antelope, bald eagle, opsrey and baby.

This was called the paint pots. It is actually boiling mud. It was pretty cute.

Okay, so I had to include a photo of Old Faithful. Not because it was the most spectacular thing we saw, but because we waited nearly two hours to see it. We arrived just as it was finishing, so we decided to wait until the next erruption. So, here is a shot of what we saw. There were only a few people watching…

We drove to the canyon at Yellowstone. It was gorgeous. There are two waterfalls, and the ranger explained how the lower waterfall used to extend out 20 miles from where it was now. Nature is so powerful.

We hiked down to the top of the lower falls which plummets 304 feet down. I wasn’t expecting this magical site. It was really mystical to see the rainbow and the mist from the waterfall. I could have stayed all day, but the hike up in the high altitude was going to take a while, and there was a little babe waiting for me in the car (with Oma of course, not alone) who would be hungry soon.

This was a really amazing site. We drove to the Mammoth terraces near the north entrance to the park. You can tell from the shadows that it was rather late in the day. It was worth the stop.

We had some food before leaving the park and didn’t make it home until midnight or so. We had a couple Kayla stops on the way home, and saw some serious lightning storms. Sometimes there was just a flash of light, other times we could see the bolts themselves. We managed to miss the downpours somehow, but really enjoyed the show as we don’t get much of that in Seattle.