Day 18 recap...

Day 18 ended up being really fun just me and the kids.  We had a fun time just being at the campground, was nice for a change to not be zooming around town.  SC still carried around her pony purse.  When Matt got back we finally rented a multi seater bike, Ollie has been wanting to do this forever.  It was a ton harder than it looked! We headed into town for a fabulous dinner at a local grill and walked around West Yellowstone the town one more time, SC read a couple of books in the bookstore.  And then Ollie played with friends when we got home, these friends were from Slovakia. They live in Canada but were originally from Slovakia...it's amazing all the many different places that the people are from that we have met.

Day 17 pics and day 18 update...

 Happy Saturday! No blog last night just didn't have it in me to go to the wireless hotspot at camp. So here is the update...yesterday we hung by this lake for a while, Ollie went for a swim.  Then Matt decided it wasn't that great for fly fishing so we headed to a stream nearby and were visited by a few Bison, that was fun! 

 Matt took this picture of the kids doing whatever in the world they are doing on me.  He calls me the "mommy bean bag." It doesn't really matter where I am sitting or laying, they always stick to me like magnets!  We've had a lot of snuggling time the past 17 days!

 We all headed back to the camper for nap time and had dinner and played at the playground then finished the evening by watching, Yellowstone Cubs...a movie my mom got us...thanks mom! I've been wanting us to watch it all week, and last night we finally did, it was fun b/c a lot of the stuff we have seen this week.  BTW this movie takes place in the 50's I think.

 This girl loves to swing, like a big girl I might add and high!  We've enjoyed all the KOA playgrounds.  By the way most of the rest areas in the West have playgrounds as well, too, very nice!

 And this is what we're (me and the kids) up to today...hanging out.  Matt went on a day hike so we are filling our day with time on the game room, the pool, although indoor and heated still feels very cool, home made fudge from the gift shop and some creative time in the camper.  I turned the kids bed into a "playroom" for the day, took out our car books and toys and are letting them "be creative!" So far so good!

Tomorrow we'll head on to Jackson Hole, WY through the 4th of July.  It sounds like a really fun place and we're excited to see the Grand Tetons! 

Day 16...

Today was a super fun day, the pace of today was relaxing and enjoyable for everyone.  We started out heading north in the park today.  We saw a couple of Elk on the side of the road as we were driving.  We still have not however had a bear sighting.  We then went to a mile long trail called the Artist Pot's trail.  See the second picture that was from up above on the trail.  It looks like different paint colors in a palette of sorts.  We managed...finally...to get a family photo, hoping to snag a few more of these!  Then we headed around the upper loop of Yellowstone, there were many beautiful sights to see and much less people than where we are camping.  The last picture is a petrified tree that was off the main road a bit.  We did stop at the Roosevelt Lodge which was made in 1906, one of the oldest National Park Lodges.  Sarah Claire picked up the pony pocket book as soon as we headed into the gift shop and she carried it around the whole time.  So we just had to get it...she was so proud of her new horse pocket book, which she named "Pony" of course.  She is sleeping with it right now! 

Tonight we headed into the little town nearby and saw the movie Brave.  It was SC's first movie ever...and we had to take her out a few times with a few scary bear scenes.  But Ollie loved it.  It's the first movie the 4 of us have ever seen together...very cute movie by the way!  Tomorrow more stream side fishing and hanging out are on the plans. We have really enjoyed being in one place for so long and what a beautiful place it is!

The Junior Ranger!

Day 15...2 weeks on the road!!

 We made it 2 weeks on the road...whew! Here's how some of our mornings turn out around here, me and the girl snuggle while Daddy who's an early bird goes to take a shower.  Love this little bear!

 Once we all got up, we headed into the park to hear a junior ranger program talk about forest fires.  I thought I had put a picture of our new junior ranger on here, but I'll have to do it in a minute. It was pretty cool!

 We played by this creek for a while.

 Then headed to this one while daddy fly fished...look at our first yellowstone trout!

 SC played in the river...I figured out today why she keep taking the hair bows out...she can't twirl with them in.

 We saw a real wolf right across the river from us...pretty cool! Also saw a couple of bald eagles today!

 More upside down glasses.

And Matt took his turn with the "finder's keepers" hat...howdy partner!  

and the rest of yesterday's pics!!

yesterday's pics take 2

More to come later, internet slow as molasses!