Trip o' rama (Part 1)

We just got back from two weeks of travelling. The first week was vacation, the second was work for Josh's graduate project. I'm tired from it. One of the repercussions was that Liz became used to being around us constantly. Now she's very clingy and has a hard time taking naps. However, we had a good time and will chalk it down as a time we grew together as a family.

DAY 1 (Tuesday)

We travelled all day and camped in the Tetons at a nice campground called Lizard Creek. While we saw no lizards or creeks, we did see the northern part of Jackson Lake and some nice mountains.

DAY 2 (Wednesday)

We went to Jenny Lake and hiked around to Hidden Falls. I took the ferry back across the lake with Liz while Josh hiked/ran back around. Just because he beat us by half an hour doesn't mean that we didn't have a good experience. After the hike, we drove up to Yellowstone and camped at Lewis Lake campground. We had yummy hobo dinners. (This one had chicken, bbq sauce, peppers, potatoes, carrots and lots of foil.) We also had banana boats. (banana with peel wrapped around it with chocolate chips and mini marshmallows stuffed inside all wrapped in foil and melted in the fire.) The lake was pretty cool, but the tent pads were too close to each other and our neighbors were young excited boys. Yup, they woke Liz up. I wasn't sorry when she was a little noisy in the morning.

DAY 3 (Thursday)

Typical tourist day. We drove up to the old faithful village area. We had showers and then walked around to see alot of the geysers. Old faithful was faithful. We even saw some of the less frequent ones. I made a game of renaming all of the hot springs and geysers. The grotto geyser was going off when we walked by it. Then some wind kicked up and blew all of the toxic mist all over us. It was awesome and yet not so much all at the same time. (I've only seen one part of one of the robo cop movies and it's where some guy melts in a pool of acid. This thought went through my head as we got out of the way.) We drove up to Mammoth Hot Springs and weren't all that impressed after hiking a bit, but the ride was nice. Then, we went back to the Lewis Lake campground where our tent was waiting for us. We had campers pizza which was really good. You take good thick wheat bread and spread some sauce on it, put some cheese and then pepperoni and top it with another slice of bread. Then you wrap it in foil and toast it in the fire. I loved the smoky flavor in the pizza.

Old faithful. Josh is right in front of me, moving fast.

Liz fell asleep and here I am sauntering with her down geyser lane.

Grotto geyser coming at me fast. We were on the part of the sidewalk where the mist is now.