Yellowstone

Our family enjoyed a quick trip to Yellowstone National Park this past weekend. I wish we could have stayed longer, but we are glad we were able to sneak away for a few days.

On Friday, we went on a 2 hikes around some of the geysers, hot springs and mud pots with our 3 little girls. That in itself was an adventure! One of the wheels on our stroller kept coming loose and at one point as we were taking the stroller up some stairs, the wheel fell off and started rolling down the stairs. Luckily someone grabbed it for us before it rolled into a boiling hot spring! We fixed the stroller and watched it a bit closer after that "incident".

It started raining during one the hikes and so I got the umbrellas out, which in hindsight was not a great idea. Many tears were shed as the girls fought over who got the hold the pink umbrella. We finally we decided that Jazilyn needed it the most, so Toby tied it onto the stroller. (I wish I would have snapped a picture of that, it was ingenious...)

Then Zaylia fell off of the front of the stroller on one of the hikes and scratched her knee, poor girl. She acted like she could barely walk and limped around until I carried her the rest of the way. Luckily we had a first aid kit in the car and we were able to make it all better with a bandaid. It must have been a magic bandaid because she was able to walk and run perfectly fine as soon as the bandaid was in place.

On Saturday, we went to the grand canyon of Yellowstone park and saw the waterfalls.

We also loved spotting the wildlife at Yellowstone. We saw many elk and buffalo and some were right next to the road! We also spotted a fox, a bald eagle, two baby deer and a few big horned sheep.

As were on our way out of the park we were lucky to spot this right next to the road...

...Yep, that's a baby grizzly bear. We had told the girls that we might get lucky and see a bear, but I highly doubted it. I am very surprised that this bear was right next to the road and we just happened to be in the right place at the right time. It was a great ending to our Yellowstone adventure.

There were so many amazing sight to see, I'm sure we could have spent a week up there. It's been at least ten years since I have visited the park and I really hope we make it back there before ten years have gone by.