For Fall Break, we decided to extend our usual couple days off school to the whole week off! We went with Dani and Dave and crew to Island Park. We wanted to visit Yellowstone - neither of us had been! We AirBnB-ed a cabin in IP, and had so much fun! The cabin was great! We had a loft upstairs with 2 queen beds, and 2 full futon pull outs. Then Dani and Dave had a room with a queen bed and floor for the kiddos. We had a kitchen, family room and big table for eating. We also had a washer and dryer - which was handy because we were going to be gone for more than a week! Even though it was October, it was pretty chilly and wet. Here's our packed trailer!
Sunday, we went to church in IP and then changed clothes and headed out to Yellowstone. Right off the bat, we saw animals! Here's a little fox.
I came down with a doozy of a cold, and drank DayQuil and NyQuil straight from the bottle every 4 hours.
It's probably a balmy 25 degrees in this photo.
There really were bison everywhere!
Since it was so cold, you could just see the steam coming out of the earth everywhere!
Old Faithful was the main thing we wanted to see this day! We had about 20 minutes to wait until it erupted, so we walked around and saw a bunch of little geysers.
Good Old Faithful. Wow.
We tried to see Grand Prismatic, but the steam was too intense.
But that view!
The next day, we saw a bunch of elk - even a bull elk.
We stopped at a great waterfall!
Mammoth Hot Springs.
We stopped in one of the valleys to watch for wolves and bears. There was a crowd here that was so nice to let us look through their scope to see a bear!
It's the black dot in the middle of the pic... That's my zoom lens, so you can tell how super far away we were!
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