Last Saturday, we hopped in the van and joined the
Tew's for a nice relaxing, kid free day. We started out drawing from a bowl as to where we were going to go. The first draw was to Jackpot. None of us were really to excited to go there so we picked again and decided on Yellowstone Park. We went through Jackson and drove home through Island Park. It rained most of the day, but we all had our own umbrella thanks to the Hawker Funeral Home.
We made several stops throughout the day. Sean and Ryan liked to see how far out on the rocks they could get just to scare their wives.
Noel was a little scared, but she went out onto this rock for a picture anyway.
Wait a minute, who's this Ryan?
For some reason, the van was really stinky that day!!!! I think there was a couple of geysers inside the van.
This is a picture of Sean trying to throw rocks into the vent of the bathroom.
Yah know, to try and stink it up and maybe make a splash. What it doesn't show is that I was in the bathroom at the time. Can you believe that he would do that to his eternal companion?
The snow was still pretty high in this parking lot. We had to take a picture just to show how high it really was. Notice it was snowing on us as well.
This is a very old tour bus. I thought it was so cool that I had to take a picture.
This is a view of Tower Falls. It was very beautiful.
We just happened to drive upon these mountain goats. They didn't look very pretty. I guess they were still losing their winter coats. They had a little baby with them. It was running and climbing up everything.
This is one of four bears that we saw that day. We saw two black bears off the side of the road and we also saw two grizzly bears through a mans scope. The grizzly bears were "playing" way off in a meadow. The man looking through the scope, told me that they were getting ready to "mount". I thought that was pretty funny!
I know, this isn't the greatest picture. If you look real close, there are two moose in the picture. One at the top and one at the bottom of the hill.
This trip was a lot of fun. We got to do a lot of things that we wouldn't have been able to if we would have had our kids. Thanks Kathy for watching them!! We were in the park pretty late and that's why we got to see as many animals as we did. We would like to go back with our kids sometime and stay at Mammoth Hot Springs.
Hallie recently turned 6 years old. As usual, we had a party with all of our families. She decided on an Oreo dessert and some cupcakes.
She was very spoiled as always and she even talked some of her grandparents into taking her shopping so she could pick out her own gifts. If you know Hallie, she loves to go shopping with her grandparents!!
