Yellowstone

Tyler and I went camping in Yellowstone National Park on August 12th and 13th, 2010.  We went with our friends Jen, Richard, and (their cute baby Saydee).  Jen, my friend from college, planned the whole thing. 

She was so awesome to pick up all the food, find a car big enough for us all to fit in, and she picked out a campground for us to stay at (many, many thanks to Jen and Rickard).  Not to mention the two day, two night trip only cost us $94.00 dollars (which included gas, food, and camp).  We had awesome food too, pancakes and bacon for breakfast, tin foil dinners, and yummy snacks. We all stayed two nights at Norris campgound.  We arrived just in time to get the perfect camping spot on Thursday morning.

The first day we drove the Northern loop, which had many cool sites to see.  We even saw a grizzly bear and two cubs about a 1/2 mile away from us on our first day (thankfully the bears were no where near our camp).

The second day we drove the southern loop.  I thought the loops seemed really long at first, but we drove them fairly quick.  For those of you who haven't been, there is actually quite a bit of hiking, which I didn't expect.  It wasn't intense hiking or anything, but you definitely need to be prepared to do quite a bit of walking, which was great.

See what I mean about the hiking. 

My amazing husband Tyler.  What an eerie background.

US <3

Waterfalls are one of my favorite things, I could spend the day here.

Shhhhh, Tyler's pondering.

Mama bear and her two cubs.  You can see all three if you click on the picture.

Lot's of hiking, which was awesome!

So many random super blue water spots throughout the park.

There were a lot of tourists from Asia and Germany.  Looks like some of them don't know Buffalos are dangerous.  Get back in your car lady! 

The water is hot, but the steam felt good since it was a cool day.

Picutres never do justice.  The color here was so interesting.

Old Faithful, need I say more!

Precious.

Jen, Richard, and Saydee we had such a good time together!

Hello, hi, helloooo....look through the trees and you can see a herd of wild buffalo.

Yellowstone Falls, the prettiest site in the park.

Our campsite.  I didn't get a picture with our tents up, darn. ;-)