Intro: Yellowstone is amazing! Geysers, mud pots, rivers, waterfalls, forests, animals, everything is beautiful in Yellowstone. Not all smells are wonderful but the sites are cool. I am going to put day 5 and day 6 together so I can talk about it all at once instead of separating the two. The dates are Tuesday, June 2, 2009 and Wednesday, June 03, 2009. Today hasn’t ended but I can pretty much sum it all up. Let’s summarize by saying that you haven’t seen anything until you have seen Yellowstone for at least two days.
Days 5-6: In the morning I woke up to start peeling potatoes. I said that if I peeled potatoes, we could have fried potatoes, eggs, and bacon for breakfast. So I kept my part of the deal, and Mom and Dad kept theirs. So that was the beginning of the first day at Yellowstone campground. When we got ready to go to the first stop, the first thing we saw was a beautiful pool. We later learning that the bluer the water, the hotter the temperature. The only fault with the pools is that they have sulfur in the water, so the steam smells like rotten eggs! They smell horrible! It is beautiful though, if you can get past the horrible smell, and the cold rain that rains all the time, then you can enjoy Yellowstone pretty good. Some of the first wildlife that we saw in Yellowstone was Bison. Huge herds of Bison. Bison that were crossing the street, bison that were nursing their young, Daddy bison, mommy bison, and even baby bison. Another animal we saw a lot of were ravens, these ravens were huge! As in, three of them could pick Josh up and carry him away huge. We saw lots of other turn offs before we got to Old Faithful. And when we did see it, and all the other geysers, it wasn’t my favorite geyser. My favorite geyser was something that started with an ‘A’. What this geyser did was it was empty, then it fills up, overflows, then erupts to about six feet, then stops, empties and makes a gurgling sound, then it repeats itself every seven to fifteen minutes. We even got to experience an unpredictable geyser that not many people get to see. We walked for about two hours in the rain and saw almost all of the geysers and pools in the main area. They were all very beautiful and distinguished. When we got back to camp, we had a campfire and grilled steaks, and corn. For desert we had smores, not the cheesy type with cardboard and fake cotton balls. The REAL kind, the kind with original gram crackers, puffy marshmallows, and Hershey’s chocolate. We had a marshmallow roasting contest too. Mom won, Dad was second, Joshua was third, I was fourth, Daniel was fifth, and Jonathan was sixth. Dad said that Jonathan was the only one who had to surrender his marshmallow stick to another person, and his marshmallows to be sacrificed to the fire. I wouldn’t blame Dad’s judgment either, Jon’s marshmallows went aflame for about one minute because he couldn’t reach the flame to blow it out. After that it was a very crunchy marshmallow, so crunchy even Dan said, “I’s gwos!”. After that we took showers again then went to bed.
This morning when we woke up, it was one of the lazy mornings that everyone got up at their own pace. As usual, I was the last one up because I had the most comfy kid bed. I eventually had to get up because my bed is also known as the table. When we got up it was about 9:00am, I was awake then too, but lazed around in bed till about 10:00am. Ever since this morning we’ve been driving to view points along the road and then stopping to look at them. They mainly involve rivers and waterfalls. So far we’ve been following the Yellowstone river that is about 24 miles long. We’ve seen the Upper Falls, and the Lower Falls in several different viewpoints. The whole family walked on several of the paths for a while, but now it’s just Dad, Mom, and I. Josh, Dan, and Jon stay in the RV because they are still, ‘pooped’ from the walk of the Lower Falls, we walked only about ¾ of a mile, but it was down and back up again a 600 ft drop! I wouldn’t blame them but come on, Mom and Dad are in better shape than Jonathan? OK, that I can believe, Josh and Dan just got bored of the same things over and over again. At this very moment Jonathan is asleep because he was too tired. Josh and Dan are having a blast being delivery boys for Mom and Dad. I know I’ve been behind on my posts but up at Yellowstone there is very little internet connection, or even cell-phone signals. The pictures are recently taken too. When we heard that Yellowstone Canyon is similar to the Grand Canyon, Mom just laughed at the thought. When we saw it though, I believe it is even better than the Grand Canyon because you can actually see the river in the canyon. Well that is my post for Yellowstone, It is about 5:00 pm at this moment so we will continue up the road and look at some more views, then off to the campsite once more to then leave tomorrow to continue our journey. When I asked where we are going next, Dad said, “We don’t know where we are going, we are just following the road, ready to stop to gaze on God’s Art Tablet.” So that is where we are going next.
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