Thursday, August 28, 2008

Our Summer Trip - Yellowstone Park



We Are That Family is hosting a Sizzling Summer Vacation Spectacle. Be sure to stop by there to read about more summer trips. She's even giving away prizes to linking participants and commenters!

We really enjoyed our trip to Yellowstone National Park this summer. If you have never been there - I highly recommend it! It's such a huge park and a unique place. And the colors you will see are amazing - God's beautiful creations all around.

I have already told you about our car troubles, but we saw the park anyway in a rental car! And I showed you a view of a waterfall, pictures of wildlife, and a bit about the place we stayed while visiting the park. Now I have a few more pictures to show you.

This is a small geyser in the Fountain Paint Pots area. The geyser is fascinating, but it's also wonderful to see the surrounding scenery and the big blue sky!


This area was the most colorful - a sight not to be missed. It's the Grand Prismatic Spring. Here's where we head across the river to go see it. See all the steam?

And here's what we came for - the pictures just do not do the colors justice. God created the most beautiful colors!











Here is the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone Park. Amazing!


Proof that we really were there - ha,ha!


This is in the Norris Geyser Basin - another great area to explore. Just wanted to show a couple of pics from there right now. This is the Opal Pool.


This is another bubbling pool in that area - very hot!


Here's a picture looking down into a pool - looks eerie, doesn't it?


That's it for today. Hope you enjoyed the colors! I do have a few more pictures to post in the future, along with some videos if I can figure out how to post them.

Reminder: It's time again for "Would you like chocolate with that?" tomorrow. Get your chocolate-themed posts (family-friendly pictures, recipes, poems, thoughts, etc.) ready to link up on Friday. You can check out last week's post and links for ideas.

16 comments:

  1. LOVE LOVE LOVE your title here....happy to meet you, totally forget how I got here but I'm good friends with Mel from Box of Chocolates! Anyways, beautiful picts what a super vacation! Thanks for sharing...

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  2. Thanks for sharing those stunning photos.

    I have had several trips to US but have not yet managed to get to a National Park.

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  3. Awesome pictures! Everything looks so beautiful. Looks like a great time!

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  4. Amazing! I didn't realize there was such variety at the park.

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  5. Love the pictures. Looks like a lot of fun. This whole vacation thing is making me want to go everywhere.... I am adding Yellowstone to my list.

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  6. I've always wanted to go to Yellowstone. Your pictures were really amazing. It looks like y'all had a blast! Thanks for sharing.

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  7. Yellowstone is one of those places I really want to go! Looks like you all had a great time!

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  8. My family went through there on a road trip...at the time there were too many bear sighting for me with a new baby on board I wasn't staying...the day trip was enough!

    I would love to got back again as it looks like you guys really saw the sights!

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  9. Such an amazingly beautiful place! I definitely want to go there one day. Thanks for sharing those gorgeous photos!

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  10. What beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing them.

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  11. We were in Yellowstone two summers ago and loved it (although we love the Tetons even more). The paint pots were absolutely amazing, and the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone--wow! Glad you had a good trip!

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  12. What beautiful pictures! Looks like a really neat place to vacation! :o)

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  13. Wow, what an amazing trip. We went to the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago and the got us to wanting to see more of, well, more! We are seriously toying with Yellowstone for next year and the guys want to camp. With a (then) 2.5 year old. I was really thrilled to see you stayed at a KOA and really liked it. Thanks for the hint, I will share it with my guys and see if they will agree to leaving the tents at home!

    Cheers, Kiy

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  14. I love your photos in this post! I haven't been to Yellowstone forever and this makes me want to go back! Thanks for stopping by my blog today... :)

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  15. Those pictures are beautiful! I can't imagine how much more beautiful they were in person.

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  16. I went to this park so many times as a kid! Can't wait to take my own family some day! Love the pics. Takes me back.

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