They hid some food for one of the wolf packs while we there and in this pack they have two pups. Madison wanted to take some pictures so here is her pic:
(there was a protective bar blocking her way)
There was a wolf in the other wolf pack that kept going over to the water and looking in. The ranger said it was because the day before they had put live trout in the stream as part of an enrichment. I guess it was a success because he sure wanted more fish.
They also had a bear skin that we laid McKinley on and took her picture. She didn't like it very much....bear skin rugs are Not as soft and fluffy as you would think.
Then we headed to old faithful to watch the fire throw up again, since I already took pictures of Old Faithful I let Madison and carter take pictures. This is Madison being a creative photographer.
Here's a picture of it up in the air:
Here's Carters with a little help from mom:
Well while we were at Old Faithful Rolland and Dad went over to the Flats and wandered around, checked out the stink pots and looked for animals. They preferred to do this while the rest of us shopped for souvenirs. We had to get a stuffed buffalo for Carter because he was so excited about seeing them. That even if they were walking along the road right outside our car he couldn't see them because he had to use his binoculars. So he'd get his binoculars up to his eyes and would say Oh I see him now! and he had the cutest way of calling them buffalo, he would say "bith-a-low" and he would ask us mom do you see the bith-a-low?, yes I see the buffalo, Lindsay do you see the bith-a-low? yes Carter I see the buffalo, Grandma Shelly do you see the bith-a-low? yes Carter I see the buffalo. This would happen every time we saw one. So while shopping we got him a cute stuffed buffalo and a buffalo shirt...he was so excited! Madison got a book all about Bison. she told me before we started shopping that she wanted a book because that is her dream to find a book all about buffalo and it would be so cool with pictures and everything. Well we found one...well she found it and came running up to me...mom, mom it's just like my dream a book all about buffalo. (she loves books especially finding the words they are working on in Kindergarten)
Then after a while of hanging out at Old Faithful it was off to lunch, we found this cute spot right off the river in the shade and ate lunch...the kids played and played in the river even Carter who is afraid of water jumped right in and was playing around. First I just rolled up their pants but then after getting their pants wet I broke out the swimsuits.
Even McKinley got her toes wet.
Here come the swim suits:
Carter splashing..... who?
None other than his older sister...
We had a visitor while we ate a Clarks Nutcraker. We have a picture from long time back of one sitting on Dad's head so we let some crackers out for him to eat and Rollan tried to get them to land on his stomach, but they would only touch and go...to skiddish around Rollan but it was fun watching them.
Next back into the car to head to the stink/mud pots. McKinley has now gotten wise to the goings on of this vacation. She knows that Lindsay is the one who puts her in the car seat. So now she absolutely refuses to go to Lindsay, if you hand her to Lindsay she rolls, twists and tries every way possible to get out of Lindsays arms. so now we have someone else hold her and Lindsay gets in the car and gets the car seat ready. Then its a quick smooth handoff to Lindsay right into the car seat and throw the straps on...usually the realization hits and there is wailing of arms , arching of back and gnashing of teeth but at least she's in. One time Lindsay didn't get her in quick enough and she crocodile rolled and then grabbed on to the front of the car seat and would not let go and screamed. So then I had to pry her fingers off the car seat lip and help Lindsay roll her back over, not letting her arch her back and get her strapped in only to get her out 15 minutes later to walk around the pots.
Mud pots:
We told Carter that a dragon lived in this hole because it was so loud and there was smoke coming out and that the dragon loved to eat little boys...didn't even phase him.
On the boardwalk...boardwalk:
Feeling the coolness of the wet sprinkles on this hot day...
Madison wanted to take some pictures:
oh look I'm on this vacation!
walking with Carter on the boardwalk was so funny. Every so often there would be a nail sticking up and he was so worried about it, that he needed to fix it and that he needed dads hammer to fix it, first he would stomp on it and then since it wouldn't go in he would try to push it inwith his fingers and finally he would say he needed dad's hammer and I would tell him we didn't have dad's hammer and that it would be fine and only then could I drag him away from the nail.
Poor McKinley completely tuckered out in Rollan's arms....sweet!
More Madison pics: (she really wanted a butt picture?!)
Next we stopped at Madison to get some pictures of....Madison!
waving to traffic...
Madison wanted to take potty dance pictures where we stopped to have a bathroom break.
So did Carter...
The kids last picture of a Buffalo (or bith-a-low) Carters:
Madisons:
Now back to West Yellowstone to the Grizzley and Wolf Discovery Center to feed the BEARS! How exciting!!! Learning about bears:
Hiding the food:
hiding it under a giant rock
After madison came out she told us the food that they hid for the bears, they hid dog food, salad, tomatoes, carrots, and one naturalist out there was hiding peanut butter. Now here come the BeARS!!!
Here they are watching the bears and the center had these stool binoculars to watch the bears that cost a quarter (rip off) but look mom's on the stool and is barely as tall as Madison on Rollan's shoulders.
Here's the teddy bear couch at the center...again not as comfortable as you would think.
Then after that we sent Rollan and Dad back to the cabin to fix dinner ahile we shopped in West Yellowstone. It was so fun. On the way back after we finished shopping (it was dark) Carter all of a sudden got really excited and said: Mom, mom look out there, look you see those polk-a-dots. I said yes I do did you know those polk-a-dots are called stars? which he replied: No they is not they is polk-a-dots. Okay bud you win I'm too tired to argue about stars and polk-a-dots. It was a long day packed full of fun, and tomorrow we would head home, yeah, just what I wanted another long day in the car. Well sorry this was such a long post and completely full of pictures. Hope you enjoyed...stay tuned for Day Three the Journey Home.
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