Day 24

Day 24

Today we woke up to more rain, which made us not want to get up and out in it. Luckily not too much later the rain stopped for what we hoped was the day. So we set out to see the rest of Yellowstone. We saw most of it yesterday so we headed back to the old faithful area to first check the time of the Grand Geyser which is the tallest geyser that we had missed the day before. We went to the visitor’s center, checked the times,  and saw it was set to go at 2. We had some time to kill so we walked around the museum on geysers, then we went to watch Yellowstone’s version of the park film. Yellowstone wins for worst film of all the parks we have seen. It was so boring so we left early to go catch another showing of Old Faithful.

            After that we ran over to look around at the old faithful inn. we were hoping to see the big fire place but unfortunately it was under construction, but every thing else was so rustic and warm, I would love to stay here one day. We were starting to get short on time to go see Grand Geyser and we wanted to get desert at the lodge, so we ran back to the car, ate pb&j, then headed in the eat some desert. David got this chocolate volcano fudge thing and I got a brownie sundae. I was going to take a picture because it looked so good, but I guess I got too excited because I forgot until after I had already ate it. By this time we were really short on time so we ran as fast as we could with full stomachs to the geyser, we thought we were going to puke. We made it to the geyser but we quickly found out that it had already erupted. This is the second time we have just missed seeing this thing, now it was getting personal. So after taking a moment to digest, we took a drive to the other valley that we didn’t go to yesterday to see and animals and beautiful land. It was a nice drive, this time around Lake Yellowstone, which is so pretty with the snow capped mountains behind it. We saw elk, a wolf and many bison. We would love to find that bumper sticker that read “stuck in a bison jam” because we were in so many. There are herds of bison everywhere so much so that they started to be as exciting as cows in a field. It more entertaining to watch people nearly kill themselves to get a picture.

            So we drove and took small walks and viewed all the view areas to see animals, hot springs bubbling mud and geysers. We had a nice drive singing and looking at amazing Yellowstone. I may have mentioned this before but Yellowstone has a little bit of everything, I am glad that it was our last national park stop because it felt like a summary to all we have seen on this trip, valleys, canyons, waterfalls, rain, animals. It’s like Disney world with all the different sections like animals kingdom, magic kingdom etc. There are different sections and each is different wonderful.

            After our drive around we headed back to the old faithful area to make out last attempt to see the Grand Geyser. It was 6:45 and there was a four-hour window that it could erupt from 7-11. The predicted time was 9 pm, but we were determined to see it this time, so we waited because it was early earlier. We waited with anticipation, and wouldn’t you know the geyser erupted right on time this time, but our 2 and half our wait was worth it. The grand geyser is breath taking, make sure you see it next time you’re in Yellowstone.

            Tired and Cold, we headed back to camp, cooked mac n’ cheese, which we have decided that we don’t want again for at least a year and we turned in for the night.