In July Shawn and Liz took their family to Yellowstone as part of a family reunion with Liz's family. We camped out for a week and looked at all the hot water. At one point, the kids were heard complaining that if they wanted to watch boiling water, they could have stayed home and watched it in the kitchen on the stove. Nice.
Any how, we got to see one of the most beautiful places on earth.
While we were there, Claudia, Bob Wrathall's wife, bought the book Deaths in Yellowstone and we read the hair raising stories around the campfire. It was like some sort of horrible car accident and we couldn't look away; we kept returning to these stories like moths to a grisly flame. It was oddly fascinating.
We drove around the loop of the park and looked at the beautiful formations and watched Old Faithful erupt a few times. Got eaten by bugs and slept in a tent on top of some roots. It was camping in its glory. By Thursday we were so grimy that Liz and Shawn washed their hair in the cold water out of the tap. It was zesty!(Dad and Claudia went and paid for showers.)
Kyle and Morgan made walking sticks under the direction of their Uncle David and they both turned out really cool. When the peeled bark got toasted, they carved designs into the blackened wood. Kyle found some cord and put it around the top of his stick and Morgan carved her name into hers.
At the end of the week, we left and gratefully drove home toward showers and our own beds. Morgan was just glad she didn't have to share the bathroom with any more spiders!
