These pictures don’t do our trip justice.  It was more amazing than I can ever relate. 

The first morning, I unzipped the tent to find snow had fallen in the 25* night.  We, surprisingly, stayed pretty warm in our tent.

We decided to check out Old Faithful first:

One of the amazing pools around Old Faithful:

We hiked about a mile to see Old Faithful go off and to avoid the crowds:

Here’s our view, before it went off:

We waited, in the snow, with one other couple and their 3 year old and then it went off:

Lu didn’t want her picture taken:

Old Faithful, the snow, and us:

We saw a few Yellow Bellied Marmots:

The next day we went on a 6 mile hike to Shoshone Lake.  It’s the largest lake in the contiguous United States that you can’t get to by car.  It was also right in the middle of a bear area.  We had our spray and we made A LOT of noise! No bears were seen!

 

The lake!

Shaun’s favorite part of Yellowstone was Hayden Valley, we had our best grizzly sighting here-too bad I don’t have a good zoom lens!

Some of the hundreds of bison we saw:

Lucy counting them:

A hot spring run off:

The Grand Prismatic Pool-AMAZING!

Lu and Daddy watching an Osprey.

As it gets a fish!

One of the MANY elk we saw!

The view of Yellowstone Lake from our campground:

A cute, but blurry picture of my Lu:

The Lower Falls:

The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone:

Hiking down Uncle Tom’s Trail to the bottom of the Lower Falls:

At the bottom of the 327 steps:

And back up:

The Lower Falls from Artist’s Point:

Hello there, bison!

A fox! The only thing to actually scare us-it ran right at Lucy and Shaun!  We were very careful to follow the 25/100 yard rule while there!

The Petrified Tree:

We got to see babies nursing in this heard of bison:

Lu and Mommy having a peanut butter cup at lunch

ELK!

8 big horn sheep-4 ewes and 4 lambs:

We also got to see the sheep nursing!

Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces:

Bison sparring:

A heard of bison right outside of the Old Faithful Inn:

Our last sunset: