Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

 Thursday,  July 1

We decided to scramble some eggs and use up the leftover hotdogs for breakfast. Seemed like being true campers but the smell of smoke afterward was hardly worth the hassle. 

We headed out around 8 to check out the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Some of us were kind of sore from the hike the day before, so we didn't do any real major hikes. The views were spectacular anyway. 

You can kind of see why they called it "yellow" stone

The pictures do not begin to do justice!

We hiked down for a closer view of this waterfall. It was just magnificent. 

After lunch, we took a little hike

 to see the "mud pots"

Not sure why you would want to sit beside a pool of boiling water if you were a bison?

Then it was back to our campground with a load of worn out people...

We were going to go to the lake again but then it clouded up and sprinkled a bit. 

We spent the evening playing games and just hanging out at our campsite. 

Before bed time, we all took a walk down to the river. It was cool and peaceful and beautiful. 

We spotted an American Pelican, although it never got close enough to get a good picture of it. 

The girls and I stayed till it was almost getting dark... so beautiful. 

PS. At some point you decide that if your neighbors can laugh and carry on and keep you awake after 11 pm, you can run your air mattress pump at 2:30 am. It doesn't make the early morning hours any warmer but it helps with the "being smashed together in a ditch" syndrome.