Yellowstone!

Here are just a few pictures from our trip to Yellowstone this weekend.  The rest are still on Matt's camera.  On Thursday, we drove to West Yellowstone and checked into our hotel.  We went with my parents, Blake, McKell, and Luke.  That night we drove around looking for a place to eat.  We couldn't find the place the hotel told us to eat at so we went to this place called Coachmen Diner or something like that.  Well, it was choice.  The 'host' was a greasy old guy with a horrible smokers voice.  They told us the food was fantastic and blah blah blah.  So we stayed.  I ordered chicken fingers and the waitress was like, "Oh sorry, we are all out of chicken fingers."  Then my mom said that she wanted popcorn shrimp.  "Oh sorry, we're all out of popcorn shrimp too."  So what else are you out of.  "We're out of T-bone steak and Walleye as well."  Thanks for telling us that when we sat down!  Also they said that the salad and soup bar was complementary that night.  Well that's cool, except all it was was brown lettuce from a bag, cheese, and tomatoes.  And the dressing was disgusting so none of us finished it.  We finally got our meals and they were GROSS!  Anyway, they included the 18% gratuity because we had 8 people which was annoying and when we went to pay, the lovely host guy says, "Oh sorry, the credit card machine is broken."  That was the icing on the cake.  Luckily we had just enough cash but it was all we had for the whole trip.  Needless to say it was a very interesting experience.  The next morning we went into Yellowstone and it was gorgeous!  The picture of Luke and I is when we stopped to watch a huge bull elk in a field that was bugling and everything.  So cool!  I'll post more pictures later.

Here is my beautiful sister, McKell.

Here we are at Tower Falls even though you can't see the falls.

We saw tons of bison and elk and the scenery was incredible.  All of the grass was really yellow which made the lakes and rivers look really blue.  We loved it.  Plus, the weather was fabulous which was a bonus.  We had planned on freezing.

Lauren saw this side and said,"That sign means that you should watch out for walking people!"  It was so funny.  Kids are great!