Yellowstone

Brian and I are spending the week up at my parents house at Flathead Lake (NW Montana).  Brian has been dying to visit Yellowstone so we decided to road trip it this summer and check it off our list.  Since we left late in the afternoon on Friday, we didn't get into Jackson/Teton Nat'l Park until it was dark.  But we did see this amazing sunset...

Here is a sampling of our Yellowstone experience:

Moose Falls

We ran into a huge herd on bison at one of the stops.  They literally just stormed down into the parking lot and were walking between all the cars and people.  Here is one that got a little too close for my comfort... we were just standing there next to him, taking this picture.  Probably 6 feet away?!

And here he is about to enter the pathway of people (ISOLATED pathway).  Good thing he changed his mind!

Here is one walking right up next to my window.  Kind of freaky!

We spent a good part of the day checking out the "Grand Canyon" of Yellowstone.  It's a huge canyon with 2 sets of beautiful falls.  Here is the lower falls... we saw them from 3 different points of view:

{ONE...hiked down this huge set of stairs to view them head on}

{Gorgeous rainbow from all the mist}

{TWO... from Artist's Point.  An incredible overlook. So incredible it looks fake}

but it's not- see, we were there!

{THREE...down where they poured over}

And of course, we checked out Old Faithful.  Here she is in all her glory.