My sister-in-law, Natalie, lives with us and last Thursday she volunteered to watch our kids all day Saturday so Jeremiah and I could have an entire day just the two of us.
Um, ya, what the heck?! That’s awesome!
Then Jeremiah came home from work and I hadn’t told him yet and goes, “Hey do you guys all want to go to Yellowstone this weekend?” well after I told him about Natalie’s offer we decided to go snowshoeing in Yellowstone.
Wahoo! I love snowshoeing.
We bought each other snowshoes for Christmas this year and although I have used mine several times just around our place, Jeremiah had yet to strap into his.
Then while we were talking about the details, Natalie pipes in and says, “Oh you guys should go to a hot springs too!”
Holy cow girl, you are right. That is something we had never done and really needed to.
So we added that to our itinerary 😀
Saturday morning Jeremiah had to run into work for a couple hours and we had forgotten to run to the dump last weekend and it couldn’t be avoided any longer so while he was gone I got all the gear ready to go and hooked up the trailer and loaded what I could lift of the garbage onto it. Then he and Linus ran it to the dump and we popped in the car and left for Yellowstone.
Usually you get to see some fun wildlife when you go but most of the time the bison are pretty far off. This guy however was right by the road – thankfully we were in the car. This was shot with no zoom out the car window:
Ya, there’s a lot of pictures of Jeremiah since I’m the one who knows how to operate the camera…no he can he just doesn’t.
So cool! We found a bunch of spots where animals had bedded down for the night.
Jeremiah found himself a little snow seat.
Well, you really can’t see them (I don’t have a lens for wildlife photography) but there area a few elk in this picture.
We met another snowshoer along the little path we were following and he snapped a picture for us.
The path we just came up.
I didn’t take any picture at the hot springs. They don’t have a place to lock your things up and change so we changed in the car and put our snow gear over our swim stuff and then hiked about a mile to the spring. Then you just strip down in the freeeeezing cold and try to hurry to find a warm spot.
I really wanted my camera though because it was beautiful and the light was perfect. Oh well. Maybe if we go back or something.
Once it started getting dark we had to brave the cold to get out of the nice warm water and then we had a soaking wet, freezing (it was about 20˚ while we were hiking and it had dropped but not sure to what) hike back to the car. I just threw my snow gear over my wet clothes and that worked pretty well. We were walking pretty briskly back but still got passed by a couple guy with just sweatshirts and their wet shorts on – ca-raaaazy people! Can’t imagine why they were walking so fast…
Once we got back in the car we had to get out of the wet things because we had decided to go to a movie. So after facing and conquering that challenge we heading to town for a movie.
Ya, we took full advantage of a kidless day.
It was great.
We decided we were pretty sure the last time we did something like that was when we went to Italy together without the kids for 10 days. That was pretty epic also 🙂
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