One Grand Adventure: Part 4

As we continue with our epic Yellowstone tour, we hiked down to another waterfall.  This time instead of looking at the waterfall from afar, we were at the brink of the waterfall.

Want a better view?
Nope, nope, nope!

Happy boys!

Waterfall!

Forced selfie #3. My mom mentioned that the background looks fake, but I promise it isn't.

The sun came out and there was a rainbow!

Everyone had to check out said rainbow. Ooo, aaah!

The overlook overlooking the overlook.

Here's a series of pictures of just the kids. After this picture, we told Asher to open his eyes.

Both Asher and Addilyn obeyed and we ended up with this gem. It makes me laugh.

I can't decide if I like this one...

...or this one better. They both show off their personalities so well!

Jump!

After the waterfalls, we hiked out to one more overlook. You need to click on this picture so you can see it bigger.

Tyler went out there (the kids and I did NOT!). He loved it! He said he wished he could have had some coffee and a good book to read out there. Weirdo.

This helps give you more perspective on his view.

After admiring the waterfalls, we booked it across the park to see Old Faithful. We made it probably 15 minutes before it went off. Phew! The kids still got a good seat though.

Old Faithful! We didn't really explore the area around Old Faithful too much. Elias was asleep when we got there and I carried him from the van to our viewing point. After we got set down, we realized that Elias only had one shoe. After the eruption, we spent 15-20 minutes retracing our steps and looking for Elias' shoe only to realize that it had never left the van.

After Old Faithful, we headed to the Grand Prismatic Spring. This set of springs were so pretty. Although it was weird to walk through the clouds of hot, humid air.

 The Grand Prismatic Spring. Albert and Elias spent the walk to the spring learning how to say its name. It was pretty cute to hear them say it.

Walking on the board walk. It was a little unnerving corralling our brood among the masses on this narrow path. I kept warning them that if they weren't careful, they would fall to their doom. I don't think they took me too seriously.
When we were done checking out the springs, we had to go down and feel the river they feed into. It was interesting to feel how much warmer it was there compared so the rest of the waters in the park.

After the springs, we went to see the paint pots. This was a white one but we saw orange, pink, blue, and black as well.

Enjoying the view.
Between the springs and the paint pots, we got stuck in some serious traffic. We were full-out stopped on the road for nearly an hour. Once traffic began moving again, we never did figure out why we stopped. We assumed it was probably some bison near the road that everyone stopped to see but we couldn't confirm that.
Because of our hour-long delay (plus more for construction on our route back to the campsite), it was nearly dark when we got back to our campsite. Asher and Albert were solidly asleep (we just moved them from the van straight to their beds). We had to cancel our planned meal of tacos and went for the much quicker and easier cereal. It was a very long and very full day of Yellowstone fun!