We made it to The Grand Tetons, and guess where the people were from that were posing in front of the Teton sign??? Our neighbor to the North, Knoxville. The lady from Knoxville took our picture for us.
The Grand Tetons were very pretty, but you aren't able to drive on top of them, like in the Rocky Mtn. National Park. Here is a picture of Anthony eating his lunch while gazing upon the glacier wedged within the mountains.
We headed north and, finally, we were at Yellowstone National Park.
The first thing we did is find out if there were any camping spaces available, and luckily we found one and staked our claim. By the time we went to see Old Faithful and other geysers and returned, the campground was full.
The crowd at Old Faithful looked like we were at Disney World.
There is a circle of benches around for people to sit upon until it erupts, which is about once every 50 minutes and lasts for several minutes.
This is something I have always wanted to see, so this is one thing checked off my bucket list.
Then we started walking around the Upper Basin area and came upon a much smaller crowd of people. Little did we know that we were about to see the Great Fountain Geyser. The National Parks book says it erupts about every 11 hours. It lasted for about 10 minutes.
Something kind of ironic is, as I was watching this, I was thinking, if this was in Chattanooga, they might put different colored lights on it and play music in the background, like The Star-Spangled Banner. And what is even more ironic, is that Anthony said the same thing to me as I was thinking it.
After we left this area, we headed back to our campground to tuck in for the night. There were people all around us, but in our van, we couldn't hear anything. The temperature got down into the 30's but we were extremely comfortable under our sheet and sleeping bag.
This next picture is one of my very favorites. Anthony took it of Lake Lewis. Thankfully it doesn't have either of our heads in it.
The next morning we woke up, and found a nice picnic table beside Lake Yellowstone and set up for our breakfast. Sorry about the pic below, when I rotate it, it cuts off the mountains in the back.
That was about the last of Yellowstone, so then we kept heading up to the northern gate, where we couldn't resist another selfie with another sign.
Did I say it was in the 30's? Well, I think it still was when we were fixing breakfast. CCOOOLLLDDD! The hot tea was perfect for this morning.
We then were able to ride our bikes a bit to the natural bridge area.
We got to see what we think are Elk. Anthony also thinks he may have seen a moose walking across the road, but he really wanted to see one closer than he did so we could take a picture, but we didn't, so this will have to do:
Next we headed toward the mud volcanoe area, which wasn't as nice and clean as the Old Faithful area, but was still interesting.
Next came the waterfalls on the north eastern side of the park. I wish that the pictures would give you audio too. You know pictures don't do waterfalls justice.
Leaving the park, we saw the Roosevelt Arch, marking the northern entrance to the park,
And then one more picture of our heads finally in Montata!!
I have learned one more thing about Anthony on this trip. He seems to love taking pictures of others or selfies of us. I think that his retirement job should be a park picture taker. Now he has a ton of experience.
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