Yellowstone {day four of trip}

We had a good night sleep at the Big Bear Motel in Cody. We were up and checked out by 10, and went across the highway to eat at "Our Place". It was a very SMALL eating establishment (49 was the maximum capacity) that we had to wait to be seated for 15-20 minutes or so. It was a very nice day, so waiting outside was no problem. The middle aged motorcycle rider couples that were waiting also, were entertained by Christian. They were seated before us, and as their name was called Christian was getting a little inpatient and hungry and said, "eeeat"..the one man said "maybe we should order for him". I think he would've they were nice folks from SD, but our name was called right after he said that. It was pretty good food, 25 cent coffee..so all in all it was worth the wait.

 We were then on our way to Yellowstone, 50 or so miles away. The river that ran next to the road was very full and fast moving...it was a very pretty drive.

Yellowstone...

A few of my favorite pictures of my boys...

We got to Old Faithful around 2:50, it was "scheduled" to erupt around 3:19..it was pretty much right on time. It was neat to see..Christian wasn't exactly impressed, it was pretty warm and the "bright sun" was shining on him. He didn't fuss too much though, he was in the child backpack and while we were moving he was very content.

  I didn't realize the extent of the paths around Old Faithful..we walked around the paths for another 1 1/2 hours. It was neat to see all the geysers..we would tell Christian "boiling hot water" because one the first one he acted like he wanted to reach out and touch it (even though he remained in the pack the whole time). So from then on, each of the geysers we saw he would say "boiling hot"..and of course threw in the occasional "REE -ee hot" (really hot). The only wildlife we saw was near the end, we saw a buffalo.

 My butt and legs were numb (I think from having Christian on the backpack) by the end. We stopped in the Yellowstone Lodge on our way to the car..it was AMAZING. The wood work from all the timbers that made up the entire thing was pretty fasinating. We stopped a couple more times on our way out of the park to let me look at the beauty and then second because traffic was stopped to look at some carribou at the side of the road. We had seen a moose lying in the woods on the way to Old Faithful, but we couldn't really stop due to all the other people stopping.

We then headed to Bozeman, MT. It was such a pretty drive..I know I probably will keep saying that this whole trip, but really it is just so pretty. This part of the drive was VERY green. And there was a river that ran near the road, also very FULL and moving pretty quickly. We had nice weather the whole way, a little cloudy and looked like it wanted to storm when we got into Montana, but it never did.

 We got to Bozeman around 8:30, Christian made friends with the receptionist and we went to find something to eat. We settled on AppleBee's since nothing else we wanted was open. It was actually probably the best AppleBee's experience I have ever had. After Christian was asleep, I did laundry and met some people that were traveling home to CA from being in ND near Minot. They were entertaining while I waited on the clothes. We had another good night sleep..thanks to Mitch for the Comfort Inn.