As everyone knows, a trip to Wyoming is never complete without a visit to Yellowstone. So the Yorks packed up their luggage and invited the kids and I along to the park for a few days. After a brief visit to the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, we spent a long day and a half driving around the park loops. On our first evening we watched Old Faithful erupt, and then headed over to the Grand Prismatic Spring. The bad news is that we couldn't see the spring due to the freezing torrential rain that hit the scalding hot water which caused a fog cover that was thicker than pea soup. But the good news is that we caught the gorgeous rainbow at the end of the storm.
The next day we drove another loop where we saw loads of buffalo, a petrified tree and the moonscape-like Mammoth Hot Springs.
And while I'm sure that the kids all enjoyed different aspects of the park, the one thing that they will all remember quite vividly will be our sleeping accommodations.
Yep, those are teepees anchored right along the Shoshone River. Short on electricity and indoor plumbing, but long on adventure, these were the perfect places to reminisce about our days exploring the wild west.
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