After dinner we drove until we found an A and W and made an emergency stop for floats. Right across the street from the A and W was a laundromat so we decided to do laundry since we were there. That was the quickest laundry stop ever (in the grossest laundromat ever)! I think it only took an hour and fifteen minutes to get six loads of laundry sorted, washed, dried, folded and put away. Go Team Neilson!
We pulled into Walmart in Cody, WY and camped in the parking lot that night. We weren't alone... I counted 13 other RV's camping with us too.
The next morning we did a quick shopping trip and then headed out to find a church. We landed at a little baptist church in between Cody and Yellowstone. It was a log church and in the foyer were about thirty pegs on the wall for all the cowboy hats. I loved that and I would like to implement that at our church but no one wears cowboy hats so it would really be just empty pegs :(. We sang old hymns that we hadn't sung in a very long time and everyone there was so friendly. We left filled and felt blessed to worship with brothers and sisters in a little log church in the middle of nowhere Wyoming.
Yellowstone was a beautiful place to explore. I think at this point (our sixth week) we were a little bit on a "beautiful sites overload" and counting the days until we got to head home but we still enjoyed seeing what there was to see... we just might have appreciated it more if it had been our first stop.
Some of the sites:
We stayed at Madison campground in Yellowstone. The rules were really strict there because of the bears. We couldn't leave food, cooking utensils, water bottles, shampoo, or anything that would even remotely leave a scent out. We have a pretty good size collapsible bbq grill and that couldn't even stay outside if we weren't using it. Stepping over it inside the RV wasn't a lot of fun. But, it was better than bears in our campsite!
The good side of that campground was that we could have fires and could collect dead or fallen wood which means we didn't have to buy $7 wood bundles. Yay! Also, there was a great river super close to the campground. The water was a very comfortable temperature and we spent several days relaxing by and in the river.
When we left Yosemite we split up the trip home into two days and stopped in Boise Idaho. First stop in Boise was the minor emergency clinic to get some relief for Erik's poison ivy (which, by the way, was the only medical issue we had... I don't think we even used a single band-aid on the whole trip!). Then, we went to Boise Bible College where we would be spending the night. The college actually has a place for RV's complete with electric and water hook-ups. For dinner we met up with a professor friend of Erik's and his family. Cody (ACC's summer intern) joined us for pizza as well. After dinner we caught up with Justin and Tally (ACC's interns starting next month) at Dairy Queen.
The next morning we got up early and headed for Oregon. We were home by 2:30! Hooray!
Some of the sites:
Buffalo! I was really looking forward to seeing a bunch of wildlife in Yellowstone but we only saw a herd of buffalo. I was kind of hoping for some (long distance) bear and moose sightings.
Old Faithful Inn. We hung out here for a few hours one day so that Erik could work on his sermon for the next Sunday. It was beautiful and I was already planning to come back and stay at this lodge during the winter some time, until I found out they aren't open in the winter!
Yellowstone is famous for it's geysers, hot springs, fumaroles and mud pots. However, no one really talks about the stink! Sulfer is a very prevalent smell in Yosemite.
There were some really beautiful colors in the pools.
Old Faithful was something we'd really been looking forward to seeing.
God has made some amazing creations!
Here's all the people that we got to enjoy Old Faithful with!
So, I didn't get to see a lot of wildlife but here's proof that there are animals all around... this was a cave (across a river and taken with my zoom lens) and those white sticks are bones! I'm not sure what animal lives there or what animal was eaten there.
We drove 60 miles to see the plateaus at Mammoth Hot Springs. The plateaus were really neat but most of them were dry. We drove a long ways and then climbed up a lot of stairs to find dry plateaus. It was sort of anti-climatic. We looked around a bit and then it started to rain so we went to the nearest lodge for showers and then found some ice cream.
We stayed at Madison campground in Yellowstone. The rules were really strict there because of the bears. We couldn't leave food, cooking utensils, water bottles, shampoo, or anything that would even remotely leave a scent out. We have a pretty good size collapsible bbq grill and that couldn't even stay outside if we weren't using it. Stepping over it inside the RV wasn't a lot of fun. But, it was better than bears in our campsite!
The good side of that campground was that we could have fires and could collect dead or fallen wood which means we didn't have to buy $7 wood bundles. Yay! Also, there was a great river super close to the campground. The water was a very comfortable temperature and we spent several days relaxing by and in the river.
Our own little island
Sadie had a bit of fun in the mud
Curtis and Sadie started damming up part of the river. I was really surprised that they didn't get into a mud fight... Sadie looks ready to go!
Sweet Sadie Sue
Looks like after six weeks of photo ops. someone is really done having his picture taken!
Curtis and Sadie
When we left Yosemite we split up the trip home into two days and stopped in Boise Idaho. First stop in Boise was the minor emergency clinic to get some relief for Erik's poison ivy (which, by the way, was the only medical issue we had... I don't think we even used a single band-aid on the whole trip!). Then, we went to Boise Bible College where we would be spending the night. The college actually has a place for RV's complete with electric and water hook-ups. For dinner we met up with a professor friend of Erik's and his family. Cody (ACC's summer intern) joined us for pizza as well. After dinner we caught up with Justin and Tally (ACC's interns starting next month) at Dairy Queen.
The next morning we got up early and headed for Oregon. We were home by 2:30! Hooray!
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