Yellowstone

License Plates

We wrote down all of the different License Plates that we saw throughout the trip. So here they are. All 30 of them.

-Ohio
-Illinois
-Indiana
-South Dakota
-Alabama
-Minnesota
-Nebraska
-Florida
-Missouri
-Arizona
-Wyoming
-Idaho
-Arkansas
-Washington
-Texas
-Oregon
-Kentucky
-Montana
-Virginia
-New Jersey
-Pennsylvania
-Canada(Quebec)(Saskatchewan)
-Oklahoma
-Utah
-West Virginia
-Mississippi
-Maine
-New Mexico
-Kansas
-North Dakota

We're Back in Wisconsin

We left North Dakota this morning for our last drive to get home. We just passed Eu Claire have about 4 1/2 hours left. We are going to miss Yellowstone and all it's beauty a lot. The pictures of Yellowstone are downloading now and will probably be up by tomorrow. Maybe we will take another road trip and start another blog, who knows? But in the mean time we suggest that if you get a chance to go to Yellowstone you should take it.

Yellowstone and Horseback Riding

We took two trips to Yellowstone, both were beautiful. Both days we were stuck in about a 2 hour traffic jam caused by a buffalo! The first traffic jam was because a single buffalo decided that it wanted to take a stroll on the road for a few hours. The second traffic jam was because about 3 buffalo were winding in and out of traffic and they also decided to come up right next to our car, and of course we did get a video of this. Then we also saw many amazing mountains and we all decided that the views never get old because they take your breath away in a different way every time you see them. The rest of animals that we saw were black bears, grizzly bear, moose, eagles, and a coyote. The second day we saw Old Faithful. It was beyond enchanting and didn't seem to last long enough, we could have looked at it forever. Then Alaina(Chris's daughter) and I (Zoe, Linda's daughter) went horseback riding. The views that we saw were all extremely gorgeous. We went through back trails in the woods, trotted through some flat land and went through a small river. Yellowstone was above and beyond our expectations.

When We Arrived

When we finally made it to our destination (cottage/cabin in the mountains) it was breathtaking. We were about an hour up in the mountains and the views were amazing. The night we got there we immediately felt at home, everything was very comfortable.

Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, and Custer State Park

Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, and Custer State Park

At the beginning of the day we went to Mount Rushmore and it started to rain, but we made the best of it and took a few pictures which I will post later. We also walked around inside and read about the history and the making of this famous landmark. It was an amazing sight. Then we decided to drive into Crazy Horse and looked at some artifacts from the Indians and watched a video on the making of it. This was quite interesting. We then drove through Custer State Park and saw a lot of animals, such as deer, pronghorn, buffalo, and burrows (donkeys) that walked right up to the car. The pictures will be up soon!