Yellowstone - Part 3

Our next stop was the Lower Falls, isn't this gorgeous?!

 

 Triffen and Lauren enjoying the veiw!

My mom made up a little saying for the kids, when we get to Yellowstone we are going to get out walk around, get back in the car. Get out, walk around, get back in the car! That is exactly what we did (and what the kids really didn't enjoy most of the time!!)
So here we are... Getting out, Walking around..

Getting back in the car!

We then stopped at the Steam Boat Geyser!

 The crew taking a break (It was a nice hot day!)

 Someone always had to be on "Ben" duty! No telling what this boy might do!

 Walking back to the car! I was so grateful for all of the help with the kiddos!

 Then we stopped for some intentional swimming! Lila was such a good sport and got in with the kids and got here hair wet!

I stayed by the edge and helped the littles!

 

Not the most centered picture, but I just love her smile!

We were going to end our day after swimming and head back to West Yellowstone, but we were only about 15 miles from Old Faithful so we decided to hit up Old Faithful (just so we could see it twice on our trip!) As I slowly found out 15 miles does not mean 15 minutes away, going 45 mph and sometimes slower makes 15 miles drag on a bit!

The crew waiting for Old Faithful! We were pretty lucky and only had to wait about 20 minutes!
This is the only picture I got of Old Faithful! We were there TWICE and I didn't get one picture of it going off!
To the far left of Old Faithful there was another Geyser going off and it was pretty cool because it was going on for a good half hour (if not more) We kept thinking it would stop, but if we knew it was going to last as long as it did we probably would have gone over to it!

We didn't stay to look around because that was on our agenda for the next day. So we drove back to West Yellowstone to stay for the night. We were caught in 2 "traffic jams" on the way to West Yellowston just to see some stinkin elk!
When we got to our hotel Lila and Kandace went out to get us some food and the rest of us stayed and swam in the pool. We coaxed the kids out of the pool with some dinner and then we called it a night and went to bed!
The next day we loaded up and headed for Old Faithful again. We walked all around it (and with a 1.5 year old, a 2 year old, 2 4 year olds, a 9 year old, and 5 adults - you have to be creative, completely un-irritable, and ready for anything to make it through the day!) We had icecream and then headed out to find a place to eat some lunch!
Did I mention why I didn't have any pictures of the second day?! It might have been because of this little girl and another little boy who took 100+ pictures the first day! I have proof!

Anyways! We set out to find a place for lunch, but before lunch we stopped at a neat hotel (agian, I cannot remember the name for the life of me!) But Lila describeds it as looking like the hotel they had in Dirty Dancing!
After the Dirty Dancing hotel we drove and drove, and finally found the place we were looking for to eat our lunch! We let the kiddos burn off some energy and then it was back in the car to go home!
Awe, It feels so good to be home!