Monday, July 21, 2008

We awoke bright and early. Dusty was pestering me at about 6:30 am for a walk, so I obliged. We walked up to the registration circle and back(about 30min.) I kept my eyes peeled for deer or elk, but all I could see and hear were squirrels hollering at me and Dusty. Michael was up early and ready to go, so with Devin still asleep, we went up to the dump station and Michael also checked in with a mechanic about a “Check Engine” light that came on. The mechanic couldn’t read the entire code after he hooked up our engine to his computer. (It has to be read in full at a Ford dealership…ugh!).He also said it looked like it had something to do with the emissions and it could probably wait. Since we’re not having any issues like hot temps or low fluids, we’ve decide to carry on.

We made our way to our next camp ground called “Canyon”.On the way we stopped at the Black sands geysers. We really enjoyed those, most all were bubbling and puffing steam away. We ate lunch with one geyser spouting off continually in front of our RV. My new favorite was called “Spouting Geyser” appropriately enough; it never stopped spewing hot water and steam, and it was a beautiful light blue color.

We made camp at Canyon at about 12:00 noon. We ate hotdogs and soup. Michael tried to nap while the boys and I bike down to the Canon Village stores. I bought them both a Yellowstone jeep as a souvenir and we ate some ice cream. Micahel came looking for us and we decided to go see the falls.

We packed in the RV and took off. Michael spotted our first glimpse of buffalo since we’ve been out west. We joined the people traffic jam and took pictures. We made the brink of the upper falls first with skies rumbling and lightning. We got to walk down and admire it for about 10 minutes before the skies opened up and we ran for cover. We drove back to the Canyon Village stores where we ate dinner in the cafeteria. It was still raining when we returned to camp, so we had a bit of cabin-fever, so we went for a little drive. We spotted a small herd of elk grazing in a meadow and we saw bison lying down and grazing as well. We stopped for gas and pops and also decided to pop our microwave popcorn in their oven. We ate it on our way back to camp.