old faithful

We happened to hit Old Faithful at the perfect time.  We pulled up and walked out to find a good spot to witness this miracle.  We only had to wait 5 minutes until it started.  It was just a lot of steam at first then a little bit of water shooting up, then the enormous shaft of water reaching over 100 feet in the air.  It was quite an awesome sight.  As soon as Old Faithful subsided we headed off to see what other natural wonders were around.  All I can say is that we hit it at the right time.  It seemed like every geyser that actually goes off did while we were there, one right after another and we got to see them all.  Did we time it perfect or what?

The walk was very pretty with the river winding in and out and all around.

Brennen was our best camper.  He didn't complain even once, he sis everything he was told (I know I was shocked too) And he was seriously interested in everything we saw.  Even if we saw 50 just like it he wanted to know all about what he was looking at.  He needed to know the name of every little geyser, how it worked and what interesting facts came with it. He also wanted me to take a picture of everything.  He would say "hey mom, hey mom come here picture this." I was quite impressed with him and his desire to be in the know with where he was at.  Paul and William were more of your typical boys pointing out things like animal poop and bugs.  Paul stopped at one spot for longer than 30 seconds, when I came to see what caught his attention I found a dragon fly.  Apparently it was the coolest dragon fly he ever saw. (boys are so simple aren't they?)

 After we walked around the whole park we had to check out the lodge.  Inside was really cool.  It resembled a huge tree house, one you would build if your were a grown up.  The kids wanted to climb up to the top but were disappointed when they found out they could only go to the 3rd floor.

 

lodge