Yellowstone

 We did an amazing hike in Yellowstone.  It was North Rim and South Rim.  The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone is a really cool site!  And this hike was pretty stunning the whole way.  Highly recommend!

A week later I went back to Yellowstone with my brother Jeff and Amanda.  They came up to Island Park for the 24th because we have kind of outgrown Newton.  I think we will probably go back to Newton again and hopefully set up pickle ball with Lyn and Darlene or something.  But this year we planned to do a few things up here.  We planned Yellowstone, floating the river, and hiking.  I told my kids they didn't have to come to all of them, but they had to choose one.  Sadie was hurting and didn't want to hike.  And she certainly didn't want to do the river again.  So she came to Yellowstone with us.  It was a long day and she was a trooper, even though she was pretty miserable for some of it.

We got to Old Faithful with an hour or more before it's next scheduled time so we walked around the other geysers of the area.  I haven't done this before and it was really cool!  It was quite a bit of walking and Sadie was struggling.

We made it back to Old Faithful just in time and thought we could watch it from a different vantage point but realized there's probably a reason everyone watches it from the seats, the mist was all we could see so we walked a little further and got this view.

We ended up eating at Cafe Sabor after, which was really crowded but yummy.  The rest of the weekend didn't go quite as planned.  We decided not to hike because it was too much driving to go to Jackson and instead Jeff and Amanda went back to do the rest of Yellowstone with Kennedy and her boyfriend.  Then they came to our house and stayed the night and couldn't bring themselves to drive back to Island Park to float so they just packed up and went home.  Which was fine, we had a good visit with them.  But that meant Sadie spent the whole day with us and the rest of the kids didn't have to do anything.  Kylee was so busy with work and dance that she didn't have time but I told the boys they still had to go with just me.  Kaden wanted to float the river, but Julie and I decided to hike so we just took the boys hiking.  Pictures in another post.