Yellowstone in May

We made another trip to Yellowstone and luckily the weather was better.  We checked out some of the other stuff that was all snowed in last time.  It is really such a unique place.  I'm so glad that we're as close as we are and can head up there often.

This is one of the few pictures that I'm actually in.  Lot's of times you wouldn't even know that I am at certain events because I'm always behind the camera so there's no record of me being there, really.

This place is called solitary geyser.  It's just this one little geyser all by itself clear up the mountain near Old Faithful.  A long time ago, the park people tried to utilize the hot water of the spring and channeled it down the mountain.  It dropped 3 inches in depth and suddenly became a geyser.  They stopped draining it and it has since regained it's original depth, but has not gone back to being just a hot spring.  Strange.  It was fun to hike up the mountain to see this and be able to see Old Faithful erupt from clear up above.

It was a trick getting the kids up on that log over the top of a river, but it made for a fun picture.  This was taken at a place called Firehole Cascades.  Jason remembered it from when he was a kid and vacationed to Yellowstone with his family.  They came out and swam in the warm water.

This is what we saw as we headed back to West Yellowstone for the night.  It was really pretty.

We also saw these guys on our way out.  There were just a couple of buffalo herds we saw that had little calves with them.  They are so cute when they're little.

We stayed at the Days Inn in West Yellowstone.  They had this awesome water slide that was really fun for the kids.  Poor Jason forgot his swimming suit, so he just got to watch (and take the pictures).

There was a bridge over this river that the kids just had to go over (ok, I wanted to also).  There's just something about bridges that screams "Please come walk (or drive) across me!!!" 

This cool neon-green, mossy looking stuff was on quite a few of the trees around the park.  It looked kind of like a strange variety of parsley or something.  Peculiar what you can find when you look around.