Yellowstone Day 3 - Part 2

Ok on to part 2, I like to split it up a little so it isn't so long.
We found him again at the Midway Geyser Basin!  This time when we walked by we over heard him talking to people about the magical healing powers of the spring, and how this is probably where time travel happens.  Amazing!!!

 We saw a hawk!  At least we think that is what it was.

 The water was so blue, reminds me of the ocean in Hawaii

This is the Grand Prismatic Spring - the one where time travel happens :)  It is so beautiful and the colors are amazing!

 I love how even the steam was different colors, and super super blue!

 We found a dragon fly in it, I wonder how long it had been there...

 Oh this is our friend again.  We walked past it pretty quick because the steam was so thick.  But our friend soaked it all in and just sat down for a long while and enjoyed the steam, makes me wonder if he is thinking about time travel.

We went on the Firehole lake drive, but we stayed in the car to save time, so these pictures are from inside the car.  There was just so much to see and so little time!

 
Then we went on to the fountain paint pots they were pretty, and cort fell asleep again, we were all pretty tired!

The orange stuff is bacteria

 This was a pretty one!

 Me by the paint pots

Here is a shot of Chris and a sleepy little girl!

 I think this was Gibbon falls, it was really pretty.  When Cortney walks over grates like this she always says "Hi Bennett!"  Because my brothers taught her that someone named Bennett lives there.

Mammoth hot Springs was the next, again we just drove by because we were trying to get more places into our schedule, so these pictures are taken from the car.

 I really liked this tree, not sure why but I do!

Ok this is it for part 2, there is more on part 3, yes this was a very very long day!

Yellowstone Day 3 - Part 1

Day 3 we woke up and decided to hike around Old Faithful some more since there were not many people there yet. 
Cort was sporting her awesome glasses!  And we found a little friend on the path!

We decided to go up on this hike, Cortney walked the whole way by herself!  It was a half mile hike up the mountain the whole way!  She was such a trooper! We also found another little friend!

 View from the top!  This is another view of Old Faithful Inn, we stayed on the first level kind of down by the bus!

 Happy Girls!

 Dad at the top!  Old faithful, and a lot of other geysers are down there.

 Another view of Old Faithful going off

 This was a sprig shaped like an ear

Next we went to another place I believe this one was the black sand basin
I loved the steam

 These are some little holes that would spit steam out

 This is sunset lake

 Me by sunset lake

 Cort isn't in this picture because she was asleep, yay!

Next we went to biscuit basin

 This pool was so so blue I loved it!

 named very well!

 This guy was awesome!  We have a couple different shots of him because it was too much to pass up.  As we walked along the pathway he would bend over and stick his fingers in the poop and bring it up to his face - we are guessing he would just smell it, hoping he didn't eat it or anything.  When a geyser went off he raised his hand in celebration and really soaked in the experience...we even ran into him later and he got more interesting!

 He is the one in the tanktop and shorts!  I love his little braid too!

 Here he is sticking his hand in

Ok that is it for part 1, more in part 2!