Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Dusty was pestering again at 6:30am, so up I got and took her on a 30 min. walk. When I got back everyone was still sound asleep, so I crawled back into bed too. Ahhhh!

We had a reservation to stay in the same campground, but knew we might have to change spaces. So before breakfast, we drove down to the registration office and got our new lot. So back we went to our old site, to throw the chairs and stuff in the back of the RV and the boys and I rode our bikes with Michael following in the RV to our new spot.

Breakfast was Eggos and Michael and I both stopped in for a great hot, hot, hot, shower at the Registration office. We were off to see the lower falls. On our way there we dove back by the same location where we had seen our first bison and lo and behold they were still there. One had even moved about 10 feet from the road. We stopped for a photo-op from the RV and were amazed a how many people were walking almost right up to it to get a picture with it. The park has signs everywhere saying how dangerous they are and many people are gored each year, because they don’t heed the warnings. Onward to the falls, the lower falls is such a treat in Yellowstone: beautiful emerald water thundering over sand-colored canyon walls; white clouds that spawn rainbow–colored mist from the bottom of the canyon. Devin and Trenton really enjoyed their first true waterfalls.

This was one of our first hikes in the area. We started at the south rim and then took “Uncle Tom’s” trail to a great overlook. It had 328 steps (that’s up and back, mind you!} and various bridges and paths. Needless to say we were all quite winded after that trek and made our way back to camp for a rest.

I did 2 loads of laundry while the boys played game-boy and rode bikes. I did talk both of them to ride down with me to the laundry building the last time I went to retrieve the wash.

We grilled chicken for dinner, and then rode our bikes down to Canyon Village for groceries. It started raining again as soon was we had our fire going, we retired to the RV for a game of dominoes and bed.