Yellowstone Family Vacation

We left on June 13 for our family trip to Yellowstone National Park.  On the morning of that first day, both Jason and Kora had screws fall out of their glasses, which we couldn't find since they were outside in the grass.  Neither one has ever lost screws before, but of course since we were on vacation they both lost one within an hour of each other. Jesse did a wonderful job wiring them back together with some wire we had in the car and with the wire from a bread tie.  They lasted the whole rest of the trip. 

We got to Livingston, MT, where we stayed on Sunday night, June 14.  Here is a picture after 8 hours in the car.  You can see how happy Kora is about being in the car all day.
 

 

We arrived in Yellowstone on Monday morning, June 15 and got a campsite at Indian Creek campground.  After we set up our tent and had lunch, we went for a short hike down to the Obsidian Creek.

On our hike near our campground.

 

 

 

Here is a view of the road we drove on from

Mammoth Hot Springs to our camp site.

 

One of the many elk that was in Mammoth when we drove through.

 

 

That afternoon, Megan, Jason and I went horseback riding.  Megan was so excited.  She had been waiting a long time to ride a horse by herself.  Jason wasn't as excited initially, but he loved it afterwards.  Jason's horse was named Little Chief, which was appropriate for him.  That horse didn't want to stay back by Megan and I at the end of the line.  He had to move himself up to be closer to the front on the line. 

 

 

 

Jesse and Kora went fishing near our campsite.  This was the first time Kora had ever gone fishing with a real pole and jig.  She also loved it.  She caught 3 brook trout.

 

When we got back from horseback riding, we went fishing with Jesse and Kora. 

Jason also caught a couple of brook trout.

 

 

When we got back to the campground from riding horse, we had just enough time to finish supper before the thunderstorms moved in.  We almost got everything put away when it started to hail.  So we hopped into the car and waited it out.  This was the first time I've ever seen a hail storm with no rain, only hail.  It didn't start to rain until the hail was done.  Kora is now afraid of thunderstorms after watching the nickel-sized hail hit the car.