Yellowstone

The Grand Tetons

Animals

So we saw this elk grazing along side the road and I was so excited.  Then we saw one buffalo really far away and I was even more excited.  Little did we know that we would see an entire herd (about 50+ buffalo) at our campsite at Bay Bridge.  We couldn't even get out of our cars to check in because the buffalo were walking so close to our car.  One buffalo bumped the car behind us as it tried to make its way through.  One got so close I thought it was going to stick its head in my window.  Phoenix loved seeing her Bison (buffalo is to hard for her to say). The rest of trip was focused on spotting bears and moose because we had already seen so many buffalo.

This is a Black Bear! (You can see it if you click on the picture) If all the cars stopping wasn't enough attention, the bear actually started charging toward the crowd on foot and they all took off running.  

On our way home we finally saw a MOOSE!! Just a cow though, but still a moose!

Old Faithful

So it turns out that we ended up doing more driving than hiking due to me being 6 months pregnant.  We drove around everywhere making stops for our supposed bear spotting only to be disappointed with yet another dead tree stump.  The best part was swimming in the Mammoth Hot Springs.  Phoenix kept wanting to swim into the middle of the river where it was cold and Sampson spent most of the time trying to wash his hair.  He only wore one outfit the whole time and was proud to be a real mountain man. Phoenix was a trooper throughout the whole trip. She loved all of the animals and rocks.  We have quite a few souvenir rocks all over the car since she insisted on taking a rock into the car after every stop.  All in all, it was nice to get away from Provo and enjoy nature.