It was my grand daughters birthday today. Two neighbor kids came over for cake and ice cream. My daughter and her kids went for a hike up to Yellowstone Natural Bridge. I stayed home becuase I was still hurting from our hike up to the top of Elephant Back Mountain. I really learned my lesson not to …

Now most of the walks around the thermo features are called hikes and for the sake of simplicity I will also call them hikes. Our hike today is a true hike. We choose to hike the Elephant Back Mountain trail. It is rated as a moderate loop trail of 3.6 miles. It is an easy hike until you get close t…

We originally planned on going to Idaho Falls Idaho on our way to Yellowstone National Park. As plans have a tendency to change ours changed. We decided to put off Idaho Falls for week. That way David would also get to visit the family there. We had a good visit and ended up spending the night in Id…

We have been here for five days and are just now visiting some of the features in the park. The mud volcano has some interesting thermo features. We even visited some river rapids that if you are there during the cutthroat trout spawn you can see the fish jump up the rapids. All we saw was a muskrat…

Nickoli and I decided to try our hand at fishing. The pictures do not do the scenery justice. We did not even get a nibble. Yellowstone Lake is a very large lake and our experience just drove home my dislike for lake fishing from the bank. Mark…

We got home late last night from shopping in Cody, so we just relaxed for the day. We did go to the dog park with the dogs. The kids came along on their bicycles. After awhile Nickoli and Hermione returned to the apartment they where met by very large bison. They were able to safely get into the apa…