The Journey of July - Part 13

After we left Yellowstone we crossed back and forth a couple times across the WY and MT boarders as we made our way north. Lame excuse I know, but I fell asleep for like 5 minutes (okay maybe longer than that) and next thing I know, Nathan is shaking me awake because I'm "missing the coolest thing ever." He was totally right though, we were going through Beartooth Pass, probably the most incredible drive ever. 

 

We made a quick rest stop at Rock Creek Vista Point, was up high in the mountains. It was pretty amazing up there!

From there we started heading back down, and out of the mountains into more populated country ;p

From this point we pretty much just stuck to the Interstate alllll the long, long way home.

Eventually we made it through the rest of Montana and in to North Dakota, it was a long trek home.

We finally got to Fargo, ND and made our last stop before home at 1:40am.

We got home at long last at 4:30am on Friday July 8th, unloaded the basics and finally made it to bed close to 6:00am. It was not the most pleasant of home comings, as Nathan had to get up at 9:00am for work, so we didn't get much sleep.... But we caught up on sleep here and there as the days went on, and got back in to the swing of things with our work schedules and normal life. It was good to be home :)

Thanks everyone for reading and viewing all my posts and following us along our journey! 

The Journey of July - Part 12

As I said in the last part of my previous post, on the evening of July 6th, we left the Grand Tetons and crossed over into Yellowstone national park. I knew that Yellowstone was a beautiful place but nothing prepared me for the incredible amount of diverse beauty that this park contains. 

We pretty much drove straight through, in an attempt to make it to Old Faithful before the sun went down. 

We got more and more full of anticipation and excitement as we rounded the bend and caught our first glimpse of the famous geyser. 

We walked all around the area keeping Old Faithful in our sights, hoping that it would go off. 

These mineral pools were quite deep but because they were so clear, you could still see all the way to the bottom. And aren't they just a super cool shade of blue! 

So hot it's boiling!

We stayed in this spot for a while watching as the sun set, it was a gorgeous sight!

After over an hour of waiting around it started to get dark and rain, so we decided to go ahead and get moving. We made it up to Mammoth Hot Springs at the north end of the park and stayed there for the night. Along with some Elk ;) 

We got going around 5:30 the next morning and watched the sun come up through the fog and low clouds as we headed to find some waterfalls. 

After about half an hour we made it to Tower Falls and made the short hike to the top of the overlook. 

At first it was covered in fog and clouds but as the sun made its way over the surrounding hills and cliffs it cleared up and we saw the falls. From the surrounding landscape it's easy to see why they call it tower falls! 

After that we started making our way to Canyon Village to see Yellowstone Falls. 

On our way there we saw a mom and baby bear on the side of the road. 

Buffalo!

We made it to Yellowstone Falls around 8am and did some different hiking trails to get some good angles of the falls.

It was so Huge!! 

After Lookout Point we hiked down Red Rock trail to get a closer look. 

It wasn't a long hike, but very steep and curvy, with super high elevation levels going on it was probably the most tiring 1/2 mile hike I've ever done! Haha 

After we had seen what we came to we sadly had to start making our way out of the park. We had a long drive ahead of us for the day! 

On our way we saw a bear right up next to the road! It was only like two feet from our car with was pretty epic. 

Right after that we saw several big horned sheep on the road side as well. 

Annnd then a ton of buffalo ;p 

It was a sad moment leaving the park, I defiantly want to get back there soon and explore the rest of what Yellowstone has to offer! It seems endless!