Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Yellowstone Rocks! and animals

This past weekend was a blast in Yellowstone. We headed up through Idaho to stay in a Cabin with The Candland Grandparents and The Jones (Beth’s sister). The park blew us away not only because of the varied wildlife we saw, but just the sheer size of it all as well. It seemed like we were driving the good majority of it. We basically got to see the entire park, Old Faithful, the geyser basins, Mammoth Hot Springs, Entrance Gate, Yellowstone Lake, The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and all sorts of things. Besides the innumerable buffalo, we were also graced with the presence of chipmunks, squirrels, ravens, coyotes, deer, elk, moose, pronghorn sheep, falcons and bald eagles. Despite the effort we put into fishing the Madison and Gibbon rivers, grandpa Candland was the only one to catch a fish. A 4 inch trophy trout…whoopee! Here's to Yellowstone, enjoy some of our trip!
Lower Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Climbing Sheepeaters Cliff

At a geyser basin (yes, that is blue steam)

The deer could care less how close I got

The rain ponchos made the bouts look like Hobbits on a quest

Playtime at the Cabin

Ice crean break at Old Faithful

Old Faithful

There were ravens everywhere either waiting for us to leave food, or die

Mommy and Baby


A Cool Tour Cab

Mommy and Baby

5 comments:

The Sorensen Bunch said...

AAAAHHHH!!!! Congrats--it is time that ou had the baby first!!! yeah-when is it due?

We thought Yellowestone was one of the prettiest places on earth!!! We still look at the pictures of it and sigh!!

Laurel Nelson said...

Is there some news you'd like to share amongst the Yellowstone pics?

Another baby on the way?

Aubrey said...

It took me a minute, because I wondered if it was for real or a joke. Welcome to the club--only you're smart and won't be bloated and roasting all summer, but I didn't exactly plan it for myself. ;)

Alex said...

trip looks like it was a lot of fun. Congrats on having NUMBER 4! WOW!

Trina said...

Congrats!! Such a cute way to share the news :-)