After catching up on a little bit of sleep and taking our time this morning, we headed out around noon and enjoyed lunch at M's choice, Slippery Otter Pub...
because, otters are currently her 2nd favorite animal behind hedgehogs.
After lunch, we headed on in to Yellowstone National Park!
Beginning at the West Entrance and really wanting to get a glance of Old Faithful erupting, we decided to make our way down the main Grand Loop Road toward the South Entrance of the park...
On our way in, we made a quick, rainy, stop along the Madison River...
The weather was interesting all day long, and changed from one thing to another pretty fluidly...rainy/sunny, warm/cool, windy/stormy...
We stopped at the Madison Visitor Center and continued on down to the Lower Geyser Basin...
We saw our first bison, just grazing along the side of the road...
as we stopped at the Fountain Paint Pot Trail...
where we saw so many beautiful features including Silex Spring...
Fountain Paint Pot...
Red Spouter...
and a fountain group including Fountain Geyser & Morning Geyser...
where we crossed over the Firehole River...
and saw the Excelsior Geyser Crater, a now dormant geyser...
Yellowstone's largest hot springs, the beautiful Grand Prismatic Spring...
and Turquoise Pool...
From there, we continued on to the Upper Geyser Basin to view the famous Old Faithful Geyser!
We arrived about an hour before it was projected to erupt, and not wanting to chance missing it or trying to get back at another time, we went ahead and took our seats to wait...
and it was worth it!
Within 5-6 minutes of the predicted time, Old Faithful started the show!
Our front row seats were absolutely SPECTACULAR!
From there, we toured the historic Old Faithful Inn...
and grabbed a quick dinner before continuing down toward the South Entrance and our next stop, the beautiful Kepler Cascades...
before hitting the Continental Divide...
along the magical, lily pad filled, Isa Lake...
The last stop of the day gave us our first glimpse of Yellowstone Lake, and of our first elk, too...
More Yellowstone on tap for tomorrow!
More {Road Trip} 2019 Fun
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