Julie and I woke up fairly early and then forced the kids to get up, with the goal of getting on the road by 8am.  We hit the road around 8:30am on our way to Cody, WY to super Walmart for some grocery shopping, that was a highlight! We stopped at some great sights along the way. By the time we go to Walmart everyone was quite HANGRY! We did a quick trip inside and at lunch in the RV before getting on our way to Yellowstone. We hit the east entrance of Yellowstone right around 1:30pm.

Let’s just say the next 5.5 hours inside the park did not disappoint. Yellowstone is nothing short of amazing. We saw a lot of Bison, got stuck in multiple traffic halts while Bison crossed back and forth across the roads. We made a stop at the mud volcano and sulfur caldron. We learned that Ellie likes the smell of rotten eggs.  The mud volcano stop was amazing, seeing the bubbling mud pits and just learned how the mud volcano in the 1870’s looked like a volcano until it erupted and blew itself to pieces, but still it remains bubbling away today. The entire landscape of that area has been changing forever and its just amazing. They say the one constant in Yellowstone is that nothing is constant. 

We then headed up to see the grand canyon of Yellowstone, saw some really amazing falls, and finished up at Canyon Village where we did some gift shopping. We then realized we did not want to be hangry again so we had a snack before taking the 1.5 hour trek back to out stop for tonight. 

We rolled into the Big Game campground and the stop we got was at the end of a cul-de-sac nestled up right against the river, all you can hear is nature. The phones don’t work and for the first time in this trip we are truly unplugged from the world. We had a nice simple dinner, threw some rocks in the river, painted some rocks (including ones we shouldn’t paint), and then go ready to bed down for the night.

On tap for tomorrow, drive back in through the east entrance again and visit some more of the amazing stuff that Yellowstone has to offer! Can’t wait.