We had another great day at Yellowstone! Sunshine, best of all!
We thought we had seen all there was to see of geothermal things, but not really. This very large park has hot springs, steam vents, and geysers everywhere!
This one is a bubbling mud pool. The orange mounds toss mud about 18 inches up in the air in a totally random way. Looks like there should be music playing along with it.
Why is that little Christmas tree happily growing in the middle of this super hot mineral mud?
We saw streams of steaming water flowing everywhere.
This geothermal hole is in the lakebed of Lake Yellowstone. The water above these things is sometimes simmering!. Apparently there are lots of underwater geothermal vents.
Friday night was date night. We went to the Old Faithful Inn for a romantic dinner (thanks Greg and Bonnye for the gift certificate!) We started with drinks on the balcony overlooking Old Faithful, which is steaming in the background.
We went in for dinner to the main dining room of this grand national park lodge. Look at the etched glass windows!
Rustic stair rail made of tree trunks and limbs... Joy thinks they look like worms... Oh well, I guess you won't see this at 437 River Rd.
Dinner was wonderful. Joy had trout. I had osco bucco. Since it was the Old Faithful Inn, we went back up to the balcony to catch one more eruption of the geyser.
On the way back to our campground we had to wait for a herd of elk to cross the road.
Christmas tree in hot mud = future sermon for Jodi.
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