Yellowstone - Part 1

*For the next several days I am going to be playing catch up! Enjoy the cute pictures!

For our first day at the park, we loaded everyone up into the cars (and later strollers) and went to see one of the biggest attractions: Old Faithful.

The girls insisted that we stop and gas up the stroller before we went in.

We got there just after the last eruption, so we had some time to kill.

We wandered around for a bit while we waited. Have you ever seen a kid on a leash? We tried this method with Brookie, and it worked like a dream! She got to have her freedom of not holding someone's hand, and we got the peace of mind knowing she hadn't run off. Plus, she LOVED the monkey on her back!

We got back to Old Faithful right before he was thought to erupt. We got everyone ready so they would be able to see,

and then we waited.

And played.

And waited some more.

Good thing we can keep each other entertained!

Because it turns out that Old Faithful

Really isn't that faithful.

Finally, Old Faithful finally erupted. I tried to explain later to Maddie that it wasn't smoke, just water & steam shooting off. She still thinks I'm nuts!

We tried to get some good pictures during the 3 minute eruption, but it didn't work so well, this is all we got:

One night while we were in Yellowstone mom pulled out a pinata that she had brought along. The girls were THRILLED.

The grown ups enjoyed watching (this is how Lace & Steve would look with twins!)

And the little girls LOVED hitting the pinata. Even when the pinata came back and hit Maddie.

The pinata was a huge success! Later on in the week we were walking down the street when Ivy saw one of the life size, hollow statutes of a buffalo. She knocked on us, then informed everyone around that "if you hit it with a stick, candy will come out"!