Saturday, October 13, 2007

Yellowstone Trip






We're only a month late getting these pictures up, but we have a great announcement to make.

Drum roll please.......

we finally got a decent internet connection!

Anyway, it will be easier to blog now, and to enjoy all of your blogs as well.

As for Yellowstone, we had a fabulous time. My family is, if nothing else, entertaining. We stayed at the Grey Wolf Inn in West Yellowstone. The kids (my brother brought his four) thought the hotel swimming pool was just as cool as anything we saw in the park. But Mike and I definitely prefered the scenes in the park. It was so beautiful! Our favorite part was the Yellowstone canyon, and the water fall there. There was this great trail that was 600 steps down into the canyon to a viewing area. The kids all did really well with the hiking.

We saw every animal except bear and moose in the park. But we got close and personal to the wolves and bears in the preserve center in West Yellowstone. Joshua even got to feed the bears! They took the bears out of the habitat, let the kids go in and hide food under rocks and trees, and then let the bears back in. Such a fun experience for a 4 year old!

The highlight for Andrew was the imax movie about Yellowstone. There was this great grizzly bear in it that stands up and roars at the very end. Since then, Andrew has been roaring nonstop. Even now, a month later, he roars all the time. No words, just roars!

10 comments:

Shell said...

Nice to hear from you again. Good internet connections are a great thing! I hope to hear more from you soon. I love the picture of Andrew he sure is cute. Sounds like you had a great time.

Skybob said...

Cool pictures!
Glad to hear you got the internet faster, we are looking forward to more posts.

Putz said...

well centuries of barlows have been to yellowstone, i have a picture of me when eight years old by a bear, and my dad 29 years old worried to death...what goes around comes around...thanks for my favorite kind of pictures...

Putz said...

well centuries of barlows have been to yellowstone, i have a picture of me when eight years old by a bear, and my dad 29 years old worried to death...what goes around comes around...thanks for my favorite kind of pictures...

Daniel said...

Yellowstone is a good vacation spot except for the crowds. Glad you had fun. Cool pictures, reminds me of being there.

YZGuy said...

wow, I bet that was neat to see yellowstone before they had roads...and cars.

Skybob said...

talking about when dad went, 8 years old! WOW!

Victoria said...

Ah, your little family is so cute, those pictures make me miss you! Glad to hear you FINALLY got a decent connection, isn't it great? (and worth the $$$) Hope to see more of you on here.

Daniel said...

Since you got better internet connection, you can check out my blog! Oh, don't watch the Harry Potter clips, you wouldn't like me for a long time.

ky said...

I love the pictures! It is wonderful to see pictures of your family. I agree with dad in the fact that many vacations have been taken to Yellowstone over the years. We have great story to tell about an Elk running after the car and all of us screaming!!! I can't believe how much Andrew has changed! I am so excited to see you-all in November!