Yellowstone Day 1 Part 2

Drive Through Bear World Take 2 (a ton of pictures!!!)
Some Other Random Pictures

Drive through part 2!  I got a whole bunch more pictures this time!

goats!

 Cort taking more pictures!

 Deer

 Elk

 Turkey - Chris and I both agree that they are not that pretty, but they sure taste good!

 Comparison of white elk and regular elk

 A couple more pictures of the white elk

 Bears!!!

 Wolves too!

 When you see the bottom of the picture all blurry like that - it is because that is the dashboard or the bottom of the window on the side - that is how close they were!

 We even got a sneak peek at what they eat!

 We found a white wolf too!  It was very pretty!

 A lot of bear pictures!

 Ok now this is a crazy story.  So remember when I talked about earlier how you can pay to feed the big bears?  Well they ride on the top of this big van thing, and they stop and feed bears.  When you drive through you are not supposed to stop because the bears will think you are feeding them.  Well the crazy people in front of us decided to stop, and when we caught up to them this is what happened:

 The bear actually got the back door open, but luckily shut it again by accident.  We were freaking out because the pictures you see are not zoomed in at all.  The bear turned towards us, the only reason I didn't have any pictures is because we were going crazy.  We were afraid that he was going to do something to our car, luckily we were able to pull around them when the bear went back to the other car and started clawing at it again.  This is why you don't stop in Bear World!

 This one was right next to the car.

 I like how this one was just sitting down!

 This wolf ran right by our car, I just barely got a picture!

 Another shot of the moose - he was just hiding really good!

The 2nd drive through was defiantly more eventful!

Other Random Pictures!

 We are bears!  Eventually I will photo shop my head in so we are all together, but for now they are separate...

 This is how tall we were next to a Grizzly Bear!

 I am short!

 Cortney loved this little thing, she kept running to the back and sticking her head out every time she got a chance!

 This is how big our hands are compared to the bears

 Bye bye Bear World!

 After Bear World we went and got snow cones...even though it was raining and went to our hotel.  We decided to stay in Rexburg that night then drive up to Yellowstone the next morning.  Cortney loved to go swimming!  The only thing is the pool was so cold!  We decided to go in the hot tub instead!

Good night for day 1!

Yellowstone Day 1 Part 1

We just got back from our Yellowstone trip and we had such a fun time!  After the trip was over I looked back and saw I took over 1500 pictures...that is a heck of a lot of pictures to look through, I promise I will keep it to a bear minimum (pun intended!) there was just so many fun things to see!  A bunch of the pictures are doubles but still that would be one long post - so I am just going to post it in different sections.

Yellowstone Day 1 Part 1

The Trip
Driving Through Bear World Take 1
Petting Zoo
Bear Rides!

The Trip!

On the way to Yellowstone we decided to stop by Bear World to get a close up view of some of the animals.   So we went through Rexburg -since that is where Bear World is.  Rexburg is a special place to us since that is where we met and that is where Cortney was born!  Here are a couple pictures from the ride up!

Wouldn't be Chris if he wasn't making faces!

 These are just a couple pictures of Cortney that I thought were cute!

 We had the cooler next to her on the seat and  we brought her pillow and blanket - she looked so comfortable most of the time!

We decided to stop in Idaho Falls and eat at one of our favorite places...Mongolian Grill!  Yum!  This is where we went on a date for our first Valentines day, and it is also the place where I got my nickname Duck - which is a whole different story that we wont get into here.

Drive Through Bear World Take 1

Next we went to Bear World.  For those that don't know Bear World is kind of like a zoo safari kind of thing.  They have a nice big area where they have all kinds of animals that you can drive by and take pictures of.  Some of the picture quality isn't great because we had to leave the windows rolled up, but I still got some good pictures!  Here are some of the highlights from the first drive through!

Some Buffalo...

 Mountain Goat

In this picture Cortney is holding a little camera that we bought her, I wanted her to stay away from my new one so I bought her this cheap kiddie one, and she loves it!  As we were driving through she kept holding it up to the animals and saying "Say cheese animals!"

 Elk

 This is a white elk, they say they are really rare, like 1 in six million.  It is pretty cool, I think I got some better pictures of it on the second drive through though.

 Bambi!

 Cortney taking pictures...still working on how to point it in the right direction!

 Here is a comparison of the white elk and the regular elk.

 Bear!

Another shot of bears, I got much better pictures on the second drive through, so you will see those later

 Cortney being cute!

 This is a Moose, it was super hard to get pictures of him.

Petting Zoo!

So included in the price of Bear World Price is driving through as many times as you want - we only did twice, a petting zoo, and bear rides!  You can pay extra to feed baby bears ( we were going to do this for Cort, but she was too young - you have to be 4) and you can also pay extra to feed the big bears on a special trip - we didn't do that either, but we did enjoy the petting zoo!  Good thing there was a nice place to wash hands before and after!

This is a picture of me and Cort outside Bear World.  My hand is that way because we were pretending to be bears.

 Cort Giving daddy a kiss, sweet little girl!

 They had a special place right by the petting zoo where you could look at baby cubs, they were so fun to watch!

 This was a peacock, it was so pretty I had to snap a couple pictures of it!

 For some reason Cortney loved petting the pig more than any other animal, by the way - that is just some random person.

 Cort found a peacock feather!  We let her play with it then we put it back where we found it.

 Baby and Mama!

 Cortney had a ball chasing them around!

 It was so cool that we got to pet them!

 This is just a shot of one sitting down!

Bear Rides!

I really like this picture I took of Chris inside one of the rides!

 Picture of me waiting in line for the train.

 Riding on the train - she is pulling the whistle!

 Cort and Dad on the train

 Daddy on the car ride...hehe

 This is one of those rides that go up and down - it was not very tall but Cortney just had so much fun!

 I love this picture!  Every time I see it I just burst out laughing - I love how unexcited they look!

 Mom and Cort making faces!

 Riding on the car ride!

 Utah Shirt!

Well that is it for Day 1 Part 1...more to come soon!

My Little Helper!

Today I have spent cleaning and packing for our Yellowstone trip!  We leave Thursday so trying to get everything ready.  I made Cortney her lunch then went into the other room to get some more things together.  After she finished eating she came and found me.  I went over to the table to clean up and her plate and fork were not there..upon further investigation I found out she had put her fork and her paper plate in the sink!  Not exactly the right place for the plate but close!  I was just excited she knows how to clean up after herself without me asking! 

Thanks for helping Cortney!