No one got gored by a bison or fell into a smoldering lake of hot mud, so I consider it a good day. I will say this: Old Faithful was not as spectacular as I imagined it would be as a kid. Maybe it was the build-up. We arrived ten minutes after the last eruption, so we had to kill about an hour and half at the overpriced lodge/cafeteria. The husband made an executive decision to have lunch at the cafeteria, so we endured a meal of $50 worth of sloppy joes which were unsurprisingly awful. We then wound our way through an eager crowd to find a place to stand. It rained on us, and we had to hide our cameras and shield the children. By this time, nothing less than a 500-foot spout of boiling brew would have dazzled me.
But then this happened:
Can you hear the excitement in my voice?
Seriously, though, the wildlife were “da bomb.”
We saw a ton of animals and every few minutes someone spied something new, with the exception of Bella who just kept crying “bear” so she could watch our heads whip around and then laugh at us proudly proclaiming, “just kidding” and “I tricked you!” She soon moved onto other animals, like rabbits and deer, but it started to get a bit ridiculous when she yelled, “look, a penguin!”
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What! No penguins at Yellowstone? Well then I’m just not going ^.^ Definitly will build a 500 ft spout in my zoo just for you Mel! How is life in the new house on the road going?
Oh, Rebecca, it would be so fun if you guys were here! And yes, I will definitely eat an over-priced sloppy joe and stand in the rain at your zoo to see that spout. I think that seeing all this stuff through your kids’ eyes makes it magic, ’cause there ain’t much that dazzles me anymore. We’ve seen so many bison out here, literally feet away from us, that yesterday when we saw even more, the kids said they were “bisoned-out.” Bella even went the extreme and said, “I hate bison.”
As for life on the road, overall, it’s great. There have been moments of extreme stress, like, please-kill-me-now stress, but thankfully that passes pretty swiftly. When it was raining and there was mud right outside the door, and we can’t put our awning out to shield us… and the front door area is full of dirt and shoes and the kids are bored… and there’s no TV and we’re all dying to get out… I mean, that’s what I’m talking about. Kelly was completely right about having rainy day things around, like old TV sitcoms on DVD. I swear, that’s on my list for the next trip to Wal-Mart
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