Welcome to Yellowstone Part 1.........

We arrived at Yellowstone Holiday, In Montana. Yellowstone Holiday is a wonderful campground right on Hebgen Lake; it was close to Yellowstone, wonderful showers, and store.  We loved this campground last time we came to Yellowstone we wanted to return. And what a great return it was! With warm welcomes we set up camp, and right away started cracking down at school. The next few day we did school and went to Yellowstone National Park two times. We were impressed by the wildlife! We saw tons of Buffalo, maybe some moose,  osprey ( osprey are fish eating birds that dive into the water for their food. It is really cool to see them dive!) What a great viewing of Wildlife. The first day we went to Yellowstone we did some of our favorites from last time and some cool new ones. First stop was Lower Geyser Basin, the basin is filled with mud pots, shimmering blue pools, geysers, and bacteria mats. Stopping at  Old Faithful the geyser everyone knows about is a sight to see. Right next to the Visitor Center where you can stop look at the museum, and watch the film. Natalie stamped her passport book and picked up some postcards.( Adding  to the  collection!) Hit the road again and headed  to  West Thumb. West Thumb is beautiful. On the Yellowstone Lake this the place you want to stop to see crystal blue water, geysers mud pots ,all while strolling the board walk. Headed over to   Lower Geyser Basin, and Fishing Bridge is where we saw a lot of Buffalo up close in the safety of our car! ,  and Yellowstone Lake. During the time we were not at the park we were doing school,  mingling with the camp hosts, and eating ice-cream( one of the great plusses of having a store!) Our second visit to the park was just as good! We went to the part of the park we have never been before. We enjoyed it! We went to artist paint pots is lovely you take the trail up and around getting different views of the geysers, mud pots ,and blue water, Upper falls were spectacular, you take a short walk to the falls you get to literally stand above them on the platform moving around to the different sides to get all kinds of angles. , Grand Canyon of Yellowstone was breathtaking looking at the yellow, red and orange the colors spoke for itself, Petrified tree was shocker since we been to the petrified forest before we weren't to impressed with the tree. But it was still interesting to see. Tower Roosevelt was a town we drove through looking around, and Mammoth hot springs were beautiful! We wish we came earlier because it was 120 degrees out( Natalie being sarcastic) What we saw of it was really pretty! We love our trip to Yellowstone. All the sites we saw were beautiful!  

 

 

 

 

 

Idaho

After a long car trip from Utah to Idaho we arrived at Oregon Trail campground  in Twin Falls, Idaho. The next day we missed the fires as we headed  to Hailey. To meet up with Dad's friend Chad and his wife VieVe. We had a great time! You can't go wrong with burgers, potato salad, lemonade with pomegranate ice cubes, and brownies! Yummy! We also celebrated Melissa's birthday today! Sweet 16! And some sweet gifts, Downton Abbey, camera case, memory chip, and some sweet treats! What a great day! The next day site seeing we went to the place where Evel Knievel unsuccessfully jumped over the snake river. It was an uproar for Twin Falls. After going to the jump sight,( as close as we could go, there was a no trespassing sign) we got to see how he jumped off and how hard it was to do it. After looking at the jump site we headed off to see Shoshone falls. The falls were beautiful! Here is a little about Shoshone Falls. Shoshone Falls are 212 feet, believe it or not it is taller than Niagara Falls. We went in August so the falls were not as flowing, but it was still beautiful. We went to the concession stand to pick up some postcards. The lady who worked there gave us a lot of information on Evel Knievel. It was really neat to talk with her! We headed back and  Patrick and Natalie did there daily rounds of pool.  Game on! As we were leaving Twin Falls we stopped at Craters of the Moon. If was incredible. We went around a loop in our car which was really neat. Stopping at the stops we wanted to see. We got to climb a lava rock mountain, and take a few little walks around looking at all the lava rocks. I was really fascinated by the lava rocks, and learned a lot! It was really cool!

Shoshone falls were beautiful!

Here I am on top of the Lava rock hill!

I touched lava rock!

Craters of the Moon National Monument!

Lava Rock!

 

 

Utah

                                           

Utah was are first official stop on our journey.(we stayed a few nights in Mancos, Co) Since we have already been to Utah we didn't stay long. We stayed at Lakeside R.V park just outside of Provo, Utah. The campground was great! There was a swimming pool, shaved ice R.V, a store, park, and basket ball court! We had a lot of fun with all of these activities! In Utah we celebrated dad's birthday! For desert we went to the shaved ice R.V, yummy! We also started getting our school stuff together. Since we are on the road we are doing a program called Switched on Schoolhouse. You use discs so it saves us a lot of weight. It has been working great!



                                                                                 

Lakeside R.V Campground!

Shaved Ice R.V!

 

 

 

Our journey has begun........

Our journey has begun and we are on the road! And loving it! It took some time to get used to, but we are making it happen. Our thirty-two foot R.V is now home. You might be wondering how do you squeeze five above average in height into a thirty- two foot R.V full time. Well you learn after a 3 week practice trip before our journey, that the stuff you thought you needed you actually did not need. And you might be thinking just stuff everything you want, but don't need right this moment into a storage shed. Not happening. Our family decided we weren't going to get a storage shed and just deliver five suitcases to my Aunt, and have some friends take two chairs and our ski stuff. ( they said the were going to use that to get us back to Bayfield for a visit!) We are learning to live with what we have and that you actually don't need all of that stuff. It's a chance of a life time and I am so glad my family decided to go for it!


                                                       



Wildcat!

                                                  
                                                                                   
                                                                                       

Our journey has begun!