Saturday, July 18, 2009

Adventures in Yellowstone

Steve and I celebrated the 4th of July in Yellowstone National Park with the Broadbent family. Highlights for me include being outdoors without melting, the scenery (wow!), and listening to passersby comment on the matching reunion t-shirts. Highlights for Steve include depriving himself of limited sleep to play Acquire, river rafting, and attemping to hold resistant nieces and nephews. We loved our time there and spending it with family.

You can't go to Yellowstone and not see geysers...

...or accidentally stick your finger into the hot springs to test the temperature.

We got up close and personal to the bison, while I kept re-envisioning the warning signs I'd seen of "Many visitors were gored by buffalo last summer" in my head.

We stopped here for a picnic.

"Nature! That's why I love to come up here."

A scene from the Yellowstone Grand Canyon.

Braving the rapids of the Yellowstone River...in stanky jackets that made us reek the rest of the day lovely azul jackets to help keep us warm in the 55 degree water.

3 comments:

Pete said...

Great pictures. Glad you and Steve came.

Annlbtx said...

You win the prize for the best picture of the "Eagle's Nest!" All of your pictures are very, very good! Thank you so much for taking the family picture.

Ashley Schill said...

Looks like a really fun trip! You guys take great pictures!