Day 1 at Yellowstone

We packed up and headed off to Yellowstone on Tuesday night. We made it to Pocatello and camped at the KOA. We woke up Wednesday morning and headed over to Yellowstone. We made a couple of stops along the way, one which included Rexburg. My how the memories flooded back as we drove through the town. Next we headed up through Island Park and stopped off at Big Springs to see the gigantic rainbow trout and to eat lunch along the Henry Fork River.

We made it into Yellowstone that afternoon and met up with the Givens. We had a packed day to say the least. We made it through the Upper Loop of Yellowstone on day 1. Before we even got to our first stop we saw some buffalo right on the side of the road. You could never get enough of the buffalo although you saw them everywhere. Our first stop was Norris Geyser Basin. We walked around the wooded boardwalk and checked out mulitiple geysers and hot springs.

A beautiful field of wildflowers in Island Park, Idaho

Our first, but definitely not the last sighting of buffalo in Yellowstone

We headed up to the northwest corner next where we checked out Mammoth Hot Spring Terraces. Although there was no water at any of the springs, the rock formations were still very impressive. The town of Mammoth is right next to this stop and it was filled with Elk. It was pretty fun to check all of them out.

Allie, Blake, and I at Mammoth Hot Springs

A cool rock cascade with no water... I can only imagine what it would look like with the water

Our final stop for the evening was Tower Falls. This waterfall was very close to the road and had amazing rock formations around it. Afterwards we made our way back down around Yellowstone Lake and back to Grant Village where we set up camp for the night. Allie was such a nut. We were all trying to get our tents set up and then Blake and I were getting dinner ready and we could not keep Allie out of the dirt. She was filthy and there was nothing we could do about it. Good thing we could pay $2 to take a 6 minute shower and get Allie cleaned up. Honestly though, I have never camped where I've had to put in coins to operate a shower.

Tower Falls and the awesome tower of rocks around it

Allie and Cam back at Camp

Allie having a meltdown because no one would pick her up...I wonder why

Finally, daddy gives in and decides to give the dirty girl some love

Much in need of a shower