Days 7-9

Day 7
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007, today we headed into Great Falls to visit the Lewis and Clark museum. It cost us only $10. It was a great educational place for kids. There was a lot of interactive things to do to help you learn. When we finished there we, (Troy) thought it would be better to have a picnic lunch by the falls instead of stopping somewhere, so we did. Needless to say it was quite a unique lunch. Seemed like as soon as we got to our spot the winds started to pick up and we literally had to hold our sandwiches or they would have blown away. When we put the mayo on the bread, some blew and hit Trevor in the shoulder. This lightened the mood of those who were disappointed about having to eat cold sandwiches, again!!!!! Both Tori and Carter have come down with some sort of a rash so I called home to get Dr. numbers and they don’t seem to be to concerned so I will give them Benedryl tonight and put on Arbonne Dipar cream and hopefully that will do the trick. We stopped and the local Wal-Mart to pick up supplies so we will be ready to head to Yellowstone in the morning. As soon as we walked in we felt like we were back in WI. Amazing, we don’t like the Wal-Mart here anymore then the one at home!!!! Then we headed back to Fort Benton for the night and Santa made the trip to eat dinner with us and then see us off to Yellowstone. We ate then went to the local swimming pool and had ice cream and the ice cream shop. We truly enjoyed Fort Benton.
 






 Day 8
August 8th, 2007 Wednesday, we had breakfast with Santa and we were on our way to Yellowstone. The ride was pretty smokey so it wasn’t real clear in seeing the mountains until you got real close to them. We were very excited and a little nervous about where we would lay our head tonight. We pulled in and there was room in the Mammoth campground so we took it. This is the Hot Springs area of the park. After we put up our tent we ate sandwiches and we were back in the car to see more sights. Everything is beautiful here and I will let the pictures do the talking!!!!!!!!! We saw lots of big wildlife and were out past dark, which made for a white knuckle and slow ride home. It was fun to all sleep together in the tent except, Troy and I didn’t have a mat or extra blankets to sleep on. The stars where more than wonderful, it wasn’t like anything I had ever seen before in my life. God did good.
 






 Day 9
August 9th, 2007, Thursday, our morning view was really cool. We got up and ate breakfast, then Troy, Tori, and Carter started up the mountain side by our campsite. They looked so tiny at the top. Today was a lot of fun, we toured the south half of Yellowstone, and this was by far my favorite. Lots of water. We stopped to use the bathroom in a picnic area and ended up taking pictures for a family down by the river on a fallen log, then they offered to do the same for us. Oh, did I forget to say you had to balance your way out on the log before you sit down. All was going well, and then Trevor went to sit down and lost his balance knocking Carter in backwards. All the while the man who offered to take our families picture is snapping pictures, so we have it all on record of how it went down. He didn’t get hurt so all was well after the tears were wiped away and the dirt too. Today was full and it’s very late now and tomorrow we start heading for home sweet home. We love it here, but are looking forward to our own beds and our loving family and friends.