Hi Guys,

It’s me again, Millie.

Tuesday morning we set off for the drive to the Grand Tetons (wherever that is), where we are going to meet up with Trouper and his Mum and Dad.

This time the queues to get into the Yellowstone Park were even worse and even though there were four gates open and four lines of traffic, it still took nearly 30 minutes to get through the gate!

Well eventually we got in and had only gone about 5 miles in the park, when we were in a traffic jam for about 10 miles, moving very slowly, but Mum and Dad didn’t seem to mind as they were looking at the scenery, me?, I was just snoozing!

 

We stopped a few times on the way down to look at things and Mum and Dad took their usual photos and we crossed the Continental Divide (no – don’t ask me) three times – Oh and crossed it three times on the way back as well.

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Then we stopped at somewhere called Jackson Lake to have our lunch.

A big lake with lots of boats on it and the Teton Mountains behind it.

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All through the Park neither Mum nor Dad had a signal on their phone, so I couldn’t phone Trouper to say we were on our way, but as we were leaving the lake, Dad spotted a signal on his phone and shouted for Mum to “pull over quick” and he phoned Troupers Mum and Dad to arrange where to meet.

We arranged to meet at Moose Junction and I only hope that Dad knows the way, because I don’t, I suppose we can just follow the Tetons!

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Well we met Trouper and he kicked up such fuss you would think I had been gone for a year, still it was nice to see him again – oh yes and his Mum and Dad!

Both me and Trouper got in our strollers and squeaked ‘giddy up’ which means “get pushing you lot” and we all went for a walk around the bottom of Jenny Lake, but the path was a bit rough and it wasn’t long before we were heading back to the cars to move on further into the Tetons.

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After another nice ride in our strollers, we said goodbye to Trouper and his family and set off back for home.

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On the way home, we passed this place called Old Faithfull, which Mum and Dad said was famous and we were going to watch it erupt, whatever that means.

Well back into my stroller I went and we made our way to the place where Old Faithful was.

There were lots of people, sitting and standing around waiting for? – well I am not sure what we are all waiting for and I have to confess that I started to squirm around a bit, I mean, we had been sitting there for about 20 minutes just doing nothing!

Well, all of a sudden, everybody started cheering and clapping and I looked around to see what all the fuss was – well all I could see was this smoke blowing up in the air – big deal!

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After a few minutes, there was water in the smoke, but I have seen bigger splashes when Dad has a shower!

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Well, all too soon (not for me) it was all over and the crowd started making their way back to their cars and like us, head for home.

Dad said it had gone off bang on time at 7.08 and that when we got home that we had done 240 miles on the round trip, I don’t know about that, but we had been out all day.

Wednesday saw us have another easy day and it gave me a chance to try and catch up the blog!!!, but early Thursday we set off to do what Mum and Dad said was the Southern Loop of the Park.

This time we got through the gate in quick time and set off, after driving for what seemed like hours (I just couldn’t doze off for some reason), we turned south along the Yellowstone river

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Then down the Hayden Valley, Mum and Dad really outdid themselves with the Ohhing and Ahhing as we kept seeing solitary Bison Bulls and then came upon a big herd of them.

Here’s Dad using his telescope to see them better, you can see how far away they are!

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Then using the telescope to take a picture;

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As we drove on we passed the Yellowstone Lake which I told you about in the last blog and here are a couple of pictures, its huge!

 

What with all the photo stops and getting in and out of the car, I was shattered and really glad when Mum said we were on the way back to the RV.

I bet she was glad too as she had been doing all the driving and it was another 160ish mile round trip.

Mum tends to drive the car most of the time and Dad drives the RV.

Right, off to bed as it is an early start with the RV in the morning to a town called Cody, where apparently somebody famous called Buffalo Bill lives, or giving Mum and Dads fascination with dead people, it could be where he used to live – we’ll see!

Good night

Millie x