Yellowstone Park

While in Idaho, we took one day and made a day trip to Yellowstone Park. We left Menan at 9am and got home at midnight. There was a lot of driving to see the sites and of course search for animals. It was great having Blake's parents with us who go to Yellowstone often and know their way around the park and the best places to see animals. We heard lots of stories about bear sitings etc as for us...we saw bison.

This is the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone Park. The river runs through the canyon.

Old Faithful goes off about every hour. We got there just as it finished so waited around another hour for it to go off again. We ate lunch and went to the gift shops and then realized what time it was. I took the kids and ran to where Old Faithful was and watched it it going off as we were running up to it. At least we were able to see it just not get a picture of it at its highest. This is a minute or so after Old Faithful was done going off.

The top of that tree is a bald eagle's nest. We could see the eagle in it but the park ranger wouldn't let people stop and look.

We did see quite a few bison in one section of the park anyway. Thank goodness for that because we didn't see many other animals. The kids were amazed about the size of these animals.

This heard of bison had many babies which were fun to watch.

We also saw elk at Yellowstone. However, this heard of elk wasn't at Yellowstone but at an elk farm in Menan. We had fun driving around Menan Butte to look at the elk.

On the way home from Yellowstone and almost home to Menan, Blake hit a dead deer lying in the middle of the road on the white line between the lanes. There was a big bump but no real damage to the car. Just some blood and a scratch on the side of the car.