Day 1 Yellowstone

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

I was a very nice drive up to the Yellowstone area.  The speed limit is 65-75 almost the whole way with very good roads.

I have always wanted to visit an area where there was a flatland with short sleeve weather and snow capped mountains in a distance......SCORE!

We are at the Yellowstone KOA for two nights.  The KOA is very nice and located about 6 miles west of the town of West Yellowstone.

Our arrival time was at about 2pm.  MUCH earlier than our regular arrival times of about 5:00-6:00pm.

So, now we had some time on our hands!  We're not used to that.  We had a discussion about whether to travel over to the west entrance to Yellowstone Park and get some information there.  Actually it was my idea and I was voted down three to one - LOL!  The kids really wanted to chill out.  And I was OK with that :-)

They have a heated pool here.  Claire and Eric took advantage of that first.

Then Eric and I tried a round of mini golf together.  It was a fun course but they used cement for the greens!  THAT was a fast running green for sure - and not too level in a lot of spots.  But, it was fun....

Notice our camper off to the right.  Jen and Claire are relaxing at the picnic table.  In this picture it is about 80 degrees outside.  We even had the A/C on in the camper for a while in the afternoon.  Right now as I am writing this (at 6am the following morning) it is about 39 degrees outside and we have both little space heaters running in the camper.  40 degree change - wild!

Before dinnertime Eric rented a sweet ride and cruised around the campground for a bit....

We had cheese and crackers for an appetizer before dinner.  We had purchased the cheese at the Lolita Cheese Factory back in California.  It was delicious. For dinner we had chicken on the grill with flavored rice and salads on the side.  The mosquitoes were out in force so we had dinner inside the camper. We enjoyed the rest of a movie played on Claire's laptop.