Yellowstone

We woke up early, had breakfast, and then headed straight to Yellowstone's NW entrance. Our first stop was the Norris Geyser Basin, which has many awesome though smelly (sulfur will do that) geysers to look at.

 

Apparently neon green does occur naturally in nature (sorry if that's redundant) ...

This one's called the steamboat geyser, which is the world's tallest geyser. When it gets going (which is unpredictable), it can shoot up to 300 feet!

After leaving the geysers, we stopped for a short, half-mile hike to Ice Lake.

Then we headed to the Canyon, where the rangers gave us a great recommendation for a rather short hike that gave us views of lakes, waterfalls, the canyon, more geysers, open green areas, and wildlife.

The tree and dad are both doing the Touchdown Jesus sign. 

Neither were coerced... very much.

We saw an elk and some bison at the end of our hike. 

They were just chilling, seemingly unfazed by our gawking.

Once we got back in the car, we headed for the northeast exit of the park on our way to Billings. 

We didn't expect the bison to come so close to our car, but you can hear my excitement when they did. 

We took the Beartooth Highway through the Beartooth Mountains. The curvy road took us a bit longer, but we found it totally worth it (sorry about the finger impeding on the shot).

We're spending tonight in Billings, MT, and are headed to the bustling metropolis of 

WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA, 

tomorrow.