Yellowstone National Park - Day Two

We left the grizzly bear area and made our way to Old Faithful. The kids got their scooters and we grabbed our picnic lunch and headed to the site. The place was full of tourists all ready with their cameras to catch the every 90-minute geyser explosion. We had just shown up, got in a good spot and there she blew, like she was waiting for us.

First, steam began to perculate with sputters of water followed with larger spurts and then full blow. The people awed and ooed with pleasure of the site. It was pretty cool. It lasted for about five minutes and then puttered dormant again. Everyone dispursed and we stayed and ate our sandwiches. A park ranger approached and informed us that Beehive geyser was about to errupt in ten minutes. We scurried on over and caught that erruption just in time. It seemed our timing was impeccable for the day.

There are wonderful walkpaths everywhere where the kids could ride their scooters full speed in the midths of spewing, bubbling and steaming geyser fields everywhere. On the way back Fionn started to get moody and pretended he could no longer ride his scooter and began to wail. His wailing is quite commical. It is a complete shoulder meltdown like he is made from wax and was left in the sun with his mouth all square and a perfect, "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa," comes out of it followed by a closed, stretched out frown that muffles it into a spit muffled, "Waavvvvvvvvvvvvvbblll." It is so goofy one can't help but watch him and chuckle. I ended up riding his scooter with Keegan strapped to me in the Ergo Carrier. Tourists were troubled with the site and so I gave calm smiles with reassuring comments like, "Don't worry, I am a professional."

We went to other geyser sites along Yellowstone Lake that were absolutely fantastic. They call some of them painted pots--the hot spring waters are bright blue, green, orange and some white. The walkpaths were directly over or next to each site for a good look -- or smell-- if you ran out of air and had to breathe in!

We kept our eyes open for bear and while driving I would occassionally see a herd of tourists pulled over in their vehicles with cameras in hand focused intently on something. Knowing they are not the brightest bunch, I stayed in the van and we passed with caution.

Riley was my walking partner and we took silly footage of each other getting gassed out of the geyser fields. If you ever get a chance to go to Yellowstone, spend at least three days. It's well worth it!