Yellowstone (Day 3)

So for those of you that are following our family blog and are saying to yourself at this very moment, "holy crap, how long did they stay in Yellowstone", just remember one thing, the biggest reason I do a blog is so that I (me, myself and I) can remember what happened on our vacation, so that when I go to scrapbook our trip I can actually know in what order we did things and remember the names of such places. So enduldge me for a while, as I record yet another day in Yellowstone.

Monday morning came and with it came a little patch of sun, so we gathered the kids, packed our lunch and headed off to see the famed "Old Faithful",
we must have arrived just after one of the eruptions, so we were able to find pretty good seats. As we were sitting waiting for the show, we kept looking to the sky, because it looked like there was a storm brewin', we also met a family sitting behind us that was from Orem (and come to find out they are Ute fans, huh???), so just as Old Faithful was starting to sputter and spit, sure enough here came the rain, and of course here came the wind, just so happens that the wind was blowing our direction and so not only were we getting rained upon, but we were also having all the steam and other stuff that blows out of geysers soaking us as well. After Old Faithful blew, we ran for cover in the visitor's center, we did not have to wait long and as soon as the sun peeked out again we headed for the jaunt around Old Faithful, called the Geyser Basin, we got to see some really neat geysers up close and had a few erupt just as we were going by. Little did we know however that the best geysers were coming up. We took a little drive off the beaten path called the Firehole Lake Drive, where we found the White Dome Geyser which was by far the coolest geyser, it sprayed only 30-40 ft. in the air but we were so close and there were only 3 other families that we had to share the area with. After that we went over to Fountain Paint pot where we got to see the Mudpots and if you haven't ever seen boiling mud, let me tell you it is awesome, they were a definate favorite, especially with Zacky (I think mostly because he was the first to spot "boiling mud", but who knows), we ended our day at the Artist's Paint Pot (yes it is different from Fountain) and I loved that some of the pictures I took of the kids actually look like they are sitting in front of a fake background, again just a beautiful day and a perfect sunset to compliment the landscape.