Road Trip: Yellowstone

I woke up earlier than the rest of the family and headed over to the main lodge and grabbed a fancy coffee for my birthday. The boys and Marshall joined me a little while later and we headed to the 1950's diner for breakfast. After packing the car to head out, we stopped you the diner again for milk shakes (D-man wanted to be sure to have a milkshake at a '50's diner.  On our way out of Teton, we made one last stop at Jackson Lake to do some more rock skipping. 

It was amazing to me how quickly the landscape changed as we climbed into Yellowstone. Lots of snow still on the ground and the lake we were going to have our picnic lunch was completely frozen (and the picnic area closed). We toured West Thumb along Yellowstone Lake before eating a picnic lunch along the lake. 

Our room still wasn't ready so we just headed to Old Faithful. We got to see Old Faithful erupt twice - before and after dinner. We did a loop around part of the Upper Geyser Basin - such unique features and landscape. We checked out Old Faithful Inn and enjoyed my birthday dinner in the dining room - complete  with a happy birthday version of "Home on the Range." It was a very special birthday with three wonderful guys. 

 

 Breakfast at the diner 

 

 

More skipping rocks 

 

So beautiful 

 

Checking out Upper Geyser Basin 

 

Birthday dinner at Old Faithful Inn 

 

Sunset with the geysers in the background 

 

2nd Old Faithful Eruption - still so light at 9:15 

 

Old Faithful Inn