The Munchkin's Notebook

 Lower Falls (taken with cell phone) Today we traveled the full lower loop. Our first stop was midway geyser basin to see the Grand Prismatic Spring. We then proceeded up to Canyon Village, on the way we stopped at Gibbon Falls. We stopped in the Canyon visitor center so Mom could get her stamp and then went over to the cafeteria to get some lunch.    We drove the upper falls loop, and stopped at the first lookout point.   The path at the lookout takes you 600 feet down lower falls ridge; we walked about half-way down the path.   The path was rather steep and had several switch backs.   After that we went to the Grand View point, this point looks out over the Yellowstone Canyon and the river below. The canyon is a very light yellow color and the way the light played off the canyon walls made it breath taking. A picture just does not do this view justice.   We finished the loop road then headed down to the upper falls view point. We decided against...

Today was a very long day. We were up around 0600 because we are still on East Cost time. We had asparaguses and scrambled eggs, it was surprisingly good.   Then we headed out.   It is about an hour and half drive to the Yellowstone south gate, then another 45 minutes to an hour the Old Faithful area. As we were waiting to go through the gate, there was a squirrel sitting strait up on a rock, all he needed was a little sign saying “welcome”.   As we drove into the park the next animal we saw was a pair of mule deer. At first I only got butt shots, but then they turned around, so I got a face.   Then we continued our journey to the Old Faithful visitor center. Old Faithful from the back (point & shoot) Our first stop in the Old Faithful area was the store to pick up some water then we made our way over to the visitor center. As we were coming up the main walk, Old Faithful just started to erupt.    We watched Old Faithful erupt then made ou...