Pacific Northwest Vakay Day 8

Day 8: We woke up SUPER early, drove a couple hours and made it to the largest and oldest national park, Yellowstone by 8 am. We saw lots of stuff and took tons of pictures. Don't believe me? Here they are!

Right off the bat we felt like we were on another planet.

  

But soon we were back to more waterfalls. 

I felt like I was taking all of these for granted because we definitely don't get this view in Phoenix everyday.

We saw tons of bison.

They were everywhere!

There was some pretty crazy stuff here. Check out this bubbling mud pit.

Doesn't this look like there is a dragon in here? It sounded like it too!

We saw some pretty neat stuff! Check this out.

Then we got to the geysers.

We waited for a little while to watch Old Faithful erupt. There were quite a few people watching with us!

And it finally went off!

You can watch it here.

There were all sorts of crazy geothermal features throughout the park.

Then we headed over to the Grand Geyser. It was about ready to erupt for the day so we stayed to watch.

Look at this thing go

It also completely drenched us on our way out! We were soaked!!

We made one last stop, and it was totally worth it.

Is this neat or what?

Cool, right? This is what Matt wanted to see, and I can see why!

We headed down to the lake for supper. Then we headed back to our second campsite of the trip (yes you read that right) and started a fire. It was kind of fun to sit and hang out with the fire for a while. 

That night it rained a little and was much colder than our camping at Glacier, but yet I still survived. 

Only one more day friends! We hit up three national parks in one day. That has to be a record, right? Check back tomorrow as I finish out our trip. Next week is going to be recipe week over here at mad wife skillz so keep reading!

Pacific Northwest Vakay Day 7

Day 7: We made it!!!! I survived a night of camping in a tent! Are you impressed? You should be! We packed up our things and took off to explore the rest of the park via the Going-to-the-sun road. We saw some beautiful mountains,

gorgeous waterfalls,

and got stopped by lots of road construction. Here they were trying to clear one of the trails of snow so they could open it up. Keep in mind, this is JULY!! Can you imagine? It definitely made us appreciate how much work goes into this for us to get to see it.

Then we got up to the lodge and saw a few big horn sheep.

They just hung out for a while...it was pretty neat! 

Sorry, we took about 8,000 pictures here so I promise I did spare you quite a few!

 Then we drove on and saw some more gorgeous scenery.

Here was one spot we could see two remnants of glaciers. We are glad we made it here before they are completely gone!

They were doing some more road construction so Matt decided to get out and show off the vehicle he wished he was driving.

We took another hike to one of the falls. Yes that's right. I said ANOTHER hike. At this point of the trip I'm not quite sure how my legs were still attached to my body. I wish we would have kept track of the miles we put on our legs and the amount of elevation we climbed. But we didn't...So you will just have to believe me when I say it was A LOT!!

Tired legs or not, it was still beautiful!

 

On our way out we drove past a really beautiful lake.

What a great way to end our trip to Glacier, right? By this point, we were really tired. We made it to Bozeman and used this night to get recovered for the tail end of our trip. I forgot to mention yesterday before we got into the park we made a stop to grab some lunch. Outside the store a couple little guys were selling candy to raise money to buy equipment for their baseball team. They were so cute! I think Matt could have talked baseball with them all day. Nevertheless, we showed our support and headed on our way with more candy than we knew what to do with. I'll be back tomorrow! Can't wait to chat with you then. :)