Summer trip to Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, and Mt. Rushmore

This trip has been planned since this time last summer and the time finally came. We wentÂ there with the Lenzen family and spent time with three other families at Yellowstone. A broken foot and a ear infection were the two issues that we had. Ruby is one tough cookie and Kyle was an animal carrying her to Inspiration Point. The bottom line is that the weather was terrific and we had a great time!

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We took our time getting to Yellowstone by leaving a few days ahead of time. We stopped in Alexandria, MN then Medora, ND, and finally to Livingston, MT before entering the park. Once ‘there’ we spent four days in the Madison Campground at Yellowstone, another four days and Colter Bay in the Tetons, two days in Spearfish, SD.

Medora Campground

Livingston KOA

Time in Yellowstone
Our view from the campsite

The first day in Yellowstone we headed over to Old Faithful

There she blows!

The springs are so cool (and hot)

On day two we visited Artist’s painters pots and Uncle Tom’s trail

Bandits!

This valley was incredible!

The falls from afar

Dragon’s Mouth Spring – This thing really does roar

Bison!

Yellowstone Lake

We enjoyed plenty of time in this river

A nice warm third day

On our way to the Grand Prismatic Spring

I cannot get over how colorful this wonder is

One last night at the river

Grand Tetons

The lake just down from our campsite

View of the mountains from our campsite

Day two – Up at Jackson Hole

Going back down

Up on the chairlift

Day three – Tetons

The Lenzen crew

The girls helped us start a fire on the beach. Later that night the stars were unreal! We met a couple of college students from China and a couple from New York the Mrs shared a story of surviving the first tower falling on 9/11, incredible stories.