Yellowstone National Park Got out of the tent around 7 and it was quite cold, probably around 38 degrees. Got dressed, walked around and woke everybody up around 8. Today was going to be a less hectic day than the previous few. Everybody got dressed and we left to go to Old Faithful. Once again we stopped at the General Store in Grant and ate breakfast in the car. We arrived at Old Faithful around 9:45am, Old Faithful had just erupted, so we had about 40 minutes to look around. We started out at the visitor center, and then went to listen to a ranger talk about wolves, it was for the kids but very informative. Around 10:15 we made our way over to the bleachers that surround the geyser. Behind us was construction work taking ... read more

Yellowstone National Park Woke up, got dressed and got into the car. We ate breakfast in the car with the groceries we still had. We drove south to the Mud Volcano and ___ Cauldron - On our drive we were stopped by some Bison crossing the road; it was pretty cool everyone really liked the Bison, and was a great photo opp. When we made to our destination, we all walked to the Mud Volcano, then Ethan and I made the 2/3 mile hike (roundtrip) to the _____. Ethan really enjoyed the hike, but didn’t like the “smelly” steam in his face. We all loaded back into the car and started to drive back north, made a quick stop at the ___ Cauldron where we also saw a few Bison, one was rolling in the mud. ... read more

Grand Teton National Park We woke up and it was very cloudy and looked like rain. We got dressed, got in the car and started driving. We had breakfast in the car and started sightseeing. The sites of the Grand Tetons were magnificent. Amy and the boys really seemed to like it. We pulled over at many of the turnouts for pictures. We slowly made our way to Jenny Lake where we stopped an looked around at the lake and Ethan and I went down to the lake (at 10 yards of hiking). Then we got back in car and drove down to Jackson, Wy and then made our way over to Teton Village (Jackson Hole Ski Area). The plan was to take the Tram up to the top of the mountain to see the views. ... read more

Leave Fort Lauderdale Aiport for our flight to Denver International We were supposed to take off at 3:05 pm - finally depart around 3:30 due to bad weather Flight overbooked At our gate, as we were waiting to board the plane we ran into Alfredo Ameziga of the Florida Marlins - he was flying to Denver to see a Knee specialist in Vail. Amy and the boys went over to meet him, he was very courteous to them. Extremely bumpy for about the first 1-1/2 hours - then smoothed out Noah was very sleepy (due to his medicine prior to the flight), he slept on Amy’s lap for most of the flight - about 2/3 of the way through the flight Noah threw-up all over the plane, floor, seat, isle and himself. We didn’t have an ... read more