Yellowstone National Park

We spent 4 days at Grizzly Park in West Yellowstone where Carlos, Megan, Kyle, Heather, Samantha, Emily, Joel, Rachel and Charlotte joined us - more family fun!

Samantha and Emily did a rope course with zip lines - little monkeys! The Grizzly and Wolf Refuge Center has a program where kids learn about the animals and then hide food for when the bears are let into the enclosure to find it. Us girls went to a small, local theatre to see "Singing In The Rain" and it was really fun.

Of course we toured the park! A big loop tour took us to Old Faithful in time for happy hour and dinner at the big lodge on Monday night. Roger says traveling with 15 people and several cars is like "herding cats!"

Yellowstone Falls

All the "kids" drove the Bear Tooth Highway to Red Lodge - rated as one of the most picturesque roads in the US.

Ray and Mel decided to take the highway because of the length of their trailer. So just Judy and Marilou and Roger and I drove through the northeast section of the park - some of the most magnificent scenery we've ever seen! I can't think of enough adjectives to describe it. There were some areas I would re-name "white knuckle curve" but it was spectacular!



The whole family met in Red Lodge last night for dinner where we got exciting news - Joel and Rachel are having another little girl in November and Kyle and Rachel are having a little girl in December! Kyle and Rachel brought a pinata filled with candy for the kids to break - pink candy meant a girl and blue candy a boy - when it finally broke lots of pink came tumbling out!

Let the wedding celebrations begin!