Our Yellowstone trip is fast approaching!! I can't believe how quickly June came and flew by. I know months always feel that way in retrospect, but seriously. I think last month was set to double time fast forward. We had a very fun, very low maintenance Fourth of July, with a bonfire, S'Mores, fireworks, and Siara and Tyler! Now we are looking forward to a road trip up to Yellowstone. We had planned to stay in a little hotel in West Yellowstone, but Austin's friend from Ashton, ID has a condo in Island Park, so he offered to let us stay there (for FREE). Which is SO generous, and SO nice. Because now we save money on a hotel AND on eating out because we can just bring anything we want and cook in the kitchen there. So our cheap weekend trip is getting even cheaper, which is rare.
In order to prepare for our 3 days of hiking, we decided we should go on some prep hikes to be ready. So on Sunday (after we attended church of course!) we hiked the trail up to Timp cave. We didn't buy tickets to go in the cave, we just tortured ourselves by hiking all the way up. It's a lot harder than most people give it credit for! But in our defense, we did the normally 2 hour hike is 1 hour 15 minutes, and at 12:30 on a very hot day. So no wonder we were sweaty, tired, and sun burned by the time we got back down. But it did get us very excited to spend a few days in nature!
Austin wants to see all the awesome tourist stuff like Old Faithful, the Artist's paintpots, etc. And we have a great hiking guide book to show us where to go!
I just want to see bears.
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Go Shanna! Hiking Timp without seeing the cave is like waking up on Christmas and not opening the presents...but you did keep the Sabbath by not buying anything so you will be blessed. Maybe you'll get to see bears!
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