Yellowstone Park 2008

We went to Yellowstone National Park this summer. A quick three day trip. The first night we stayed at the Worldmark resort-Yellowstone and the next night we actually camped at Madison campground in the park. We originally planned to camp both nights but after it go so cold here in Ogden, I got worried that we would be human popsicles by morning sleeping in our tent. Unfortunately, Worldmark only had one night available so we thought what the heck, let's camp the second night. It was perfect. We got to West Yellowstone early and went into the park before checking in at the condo. Ellie and Ben had a great time smelling the hot pots and craters-LOL! After walking around a few of the sites, we went back to condo and swam until dinner. Then we walked around West Yellowstone and checked out some of the gift shops.

The next morning we packed up and headed into the park. After setting up our campsite, we made some sandwiches and set out again to see more of Yellowstone. At Old Faithful, we had alittle picnic and a nap on the benches in front of the geyser- we were alittle tried from all the fun we were having LOL- and sure enough the geyser went off about a hour after we got there.

There were alot of yellowjackets for some reason trying to get to our food. I went alittle postal and stepped out of my "appreciating the natural surroundings" attitude and killed about a dozen or so of them.

Later that night when we returned to the campground, we went on a serious firewood scavenge and made the traditional camp dinner- the Hobo dinner- ground beef and vegetables. S'mores top off the evening- I think making them is more fun than eating them and luckily Ellie and Ben love eating them more than making them! Finally it was time to go to sleep. We had brought about twenty hand warming packs, broke them all open and threw them in the sleeping bags. They worked great and we were fine in the morning.

I thought we would be the only ones camping in the "tents only" section at that time of the season. But there was alot of people there enduring the elements too-LOL! We are so lucky to be close to a great national park like Yellowstone!