Thursday, August 18, 2011

Yellowstone-Grand Teton, National Parks trip Day 2, July 2011

2nd day of our trip we took the north entrance instead of the west for Yellowstone national park. There is a famous arch at the entrance, and the little red focus is our ride of the trip :)

We went to Mammoth Terraces and took bunch of pics. I guess that is the most famous spot if you go from the north entrance of Yellowstone....





Quite amazing with all the colors and stuff...

Don't really remember what this fall is....a smaller hanger fall. Can you see the rainbow at the very bottom of it? Saw a squirrel that looked as fat as Mintie near the fall :)

On the way to the falls....I thought it looked like Europe....

The upper and lower falls....

Best hair style ever....the wind was crazy big....

Found another place to have better view of the lower fall....

Went through Bison area of the park and Yellowstone Lake before we left Yellowstone National Park....

Since it was still early, we went through parts of Grand Teton as we drove to our hotel for that night....

We stayed at a resort that was about 40 min from Jackson Hole and basically there was nothing around the place. We could only eat at the hotel and the food wasn't too great even though they looked pretty good....


View from the back of our resort was actually not too bad....It's the snake river which runs through a lot of places right behind us....


Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Yellowstone, National Parks trip Day 1, July 2011

So We took a National Parks Road trip in July....I guess it would be the last long trip we would be able to take for a while...We flew to Bozeman in Montana, and the trip started from there :)

Breakfast at LAX....


Random pics I took from the plane....weird there was a red river....

Funny how McDonald has this kinda welcome sign....I guess we are at cowboy area....

Decided to go to Yellowstone 1st since we had enough time...

So the 1st animal we saw in the park was a black bear....

We went to the basins since it's the closest to the entrance. We were lucky to get through most of the famous and colorful ones for the afternoon :)





So this is the most famous Geyser in the whole park...The Old Faithful...It goes off every 90 min or so...

While we were waiting for the eruption, this little guy stood there for me to take some photos of him....so cute...and he reminded me of Mintie :)

See how many people were waiting for the geyser to go off? I think we waited around 20 min...

On the way back to hotel....Isn't it interesting to see all the smoke coming from the ground???