Yellowstone

The Lee and McCullough(Rachaels sister)families all went with us to Yellowstone. They all stayed the night in our two bedroom aparatment, all 12 of us! Rach and I slept on our couch hide-a-bed. Wow we definately got that thing at the DI for 25 dollars! Not a wink of sleep, too many bars. Good thing the in-laws didn't sleep on it!

The next day we went to the Teton Dam site, the mesa falls, Island Park Resevoir for a picinic, and then we camped at a site that we didn't have to be around other people and pay. My friend chris and I found this spot two summers ago. It took several dirtroads to refresh my memory of its location, sorry family. Its nestled above Henrys Fork of the Snake River, a gorgeous view.

Next day, we spent all day in Yellowstone seeing the sites. That evening we stayed in West Yellowstone in a resort- thanks to Aunt Shelia and Mom Lee. It was a ball. Since some of the family was Yellowstoned out, only Dad Lee, Sara Lee and i (Zane)went back.(Sara commented that she was "going back to yellowstone with the two tours guides", not nice sara). We went back for Mammoth Hot Springs, but we didn't know that they dried up in 1998, so the trip was a total disappointment.

We had a bar-b-que with my family at their home that night and played games. Then the next morning we picked the Smith Family favorite,huckleberries, along Palisade Resevoir. After a gallon of picking we parted.

Thanks mom and dad lee for the fun week and lacey and casey for coming with us. It was a ball!

The camping squad

My berry pickers (maggie and Ryan)

camp

Toby lovin the life in the woods! (Toby's my truck, i know sad! I love it him!

camp

Rachael and Evie

A bear along the road

Lower Fall of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Upper Fall

Old Faithful startin to steam

3 comments:

ChrissyLee said...

looks like you guys had a great time. it would have been fun to go. :)

why is it that we never hear about anything...AND this time i'm not talking about this yellowstone trip. we had NO idea that casey and lacie were in town UNTIL casey called tamron to ask about setting up skype for F.E.S. (foreign exchange student)

that was on friday and apparently they left on saturday. i can't believe they were here for 3 weeks and we had no idea. :( sad day. come on guys, it's not like we live in China anymore. i'm deeply hurt...so PLEASE, if you ever hear anything that should be passed along...tell us...because i'm sure we haven't heard. and maybe that's our fault. we should probs call and visit more often and ask questions...

anyways, sorry...this wasn't going to be a hate post...i was just really bummed to hear that we missed casey and lacie. we love you guys lots and lots and hope you're doing great!!!! :) :) (see, 2 smiles, because i'm happy again! YAY!!!)

Rachael Smith said...

Oh Man!! What we need is a phone tree so everybody knows that if they didn't tell someone it didn't get told. I'm sorry!! Love you guys

ChrissyLee said...

good idea!!! :) sorry about the lame comment. we really do love you guys!!!! :)