We had an early start to day #2 with our last run before the half marathon. A quick 3 miler around Idaho Falls. A great little trail runs right along the Falls. Michael even remembered being there as a child! :) So nice! We enjoyed Idaho Falls and would certainly stay there again if we were in the area.
fter our run, we enjoyed some of the treasures from our giant breakfast basket at the hotel and got ready for our next adventure: Yellowstone!
A couple of hours later and we were in the park. First stop: Norris geyser basin. So many people! So crowded! No parking! Ugh! But once we found somewhere to park on the road, it was a treat to see my first geyser basin. So many crazy colors! Such crazy landscape!
Next up was Mammoth Hot Springs. We had a nice lunch at the Mammoth Hotel Dining Room. Highly recommend. Then, we walked around the Hot springs and then headed on to our next stop.
Next up was the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. The hike we wanted to do (Uncle Tom’s) was closed, so we just walked around a bit on the south rim and headed to Artist’s Point. There was a cool looking trail on the north rim that got you
close to the lower falls, but it looked like it’d be a pretty serious climb back xup. But definitely something to check
out next time.
Next up was a drive along Lake Yellowstone with a stop at West Thumb Geyser Basin. We highly recommend this one for views of the lake with these crazy geothermal features in the background. Great stuff and an easy walk. And not as
crowded as it was later in the day. However, we thought the drive from the canyon to here was a bit of a bore. Maybe go
the other way through the geyser basins?
We continued along the grand loop and got to Old Faithful around 7pm. We needed dinner and were tired so we saved our last two stops for the next day (see how that turned out in post #3).
We checked into our cabin at Old Faithful Lodge, grabbed dinner at the Firehole Lounge in the Snow Lodge, saw Old Faithful erupt at 8:18pm, had a drink at the Bear Pit inside the amazing Old Faithful Inn, and then called it a night.
Pretty amazing day! But, to top it all off we also saw lots of great wildlife!! Bears (five of them!), elk, a coyote, marmots, and bison! Check out these great pics!!! Note: at no point did we get close to these bears. These pics were all taken from our car unlike some of the other crazies trying to get close to these wild animals.
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