I will start with the first day. We stared out Wednesday morning. Yellowstone is about a 6 hour drive from our house, which isn’t bad, especially if you time it around naps and such. On our way up we stopped in Layton Utah at Hill Air force Base to see their aerospace museum. It is really big and had a lot of stuff to look at. The girls got a little bored, they just aren’t old enough to really appreciate everything. I would have liked to stay longer and taken my time looking and reading about all those planes, but the kids were just too restless.
From there we headed on to Island Park Idaho. We rented a cabin with my parents, my two married sisters and their families and my one lone little brother. We had 19 people there, it was a nice big cabin with more than enough room, beds and bathrooms for everybody. The only person we were missing was my 19 year old brother who is in Georgia, serving an LDS mission. We really missed him, he livens things up.
In Idaho we drove through beautiful potato country. There were fields upon fields of flowering potato plants. It is a beautiful area of the country. In Ashton Idaho we took a scenic byway. (I need to say here that I fell in love with Ashton, the farms of potatoes and wheat were so beautiful!) We drove along the Mesa Fall Highway. It wound us through a canyon and out into Island Park. There were so many wild flowers long this highway. I guess they had a wet spring because everything was blooming!
I was spectacular! I love all the beauty that is around us. I love being in the wild wide open.
I recently went up there as well, but it made me feel like a “loner.” LOL
Great pics. We love the museum, But my son is almost 11 so HE thinks it’s the coolest place on earth.
I remember when I was young I thought that Idaho was this boring, fields of potatoes and tumbleweeds place. I was greatly surprised when I got older. Trav has an uncle that lives there and his place is AMAZING. We’ve considered moving there more than once.
The cabin idea sounds like so much fun.
*hugs*
The wild flowers are beautiful!
If you want to see planes you should come out here. We have the biggest Air Force Museum there is. It helps that we also have to biggest Air Force base and this is the birthplace of aviation. I think I’ll name my next sons Wilbur and Orville. Think my husband will go for it? Yeah. Me neither.
I’m so glad you’re going to blog about your trip! That way I get to see the pics too! The girls might like the museum up there better if you take them while the air show is going on! And thanks for the “hugs”!
I love VACATION Trips!!! The pictures of the flowers are sooooo pretty. I would love to just take a walk in them.