Day 5

I am ashamed. I should have had these done long ago...and yet I still have several days to go! Oh well. There's nothing horrible about having to go back through the pictures yet again!!

So this is day 5, September 13th. A Saturday. Today was our half rest day. We only ventured a little ways into Yellowstone, in search of a river to play in, since that had been the highlight for some on the days we had lunch by a stream. :) We'd noticed on previous outings a river that seemed to have a path beside it, and so went searching for that one. As it turns out, the river we ended up at was indeed one for wading in. Well, swimming in, as a matter of fact. People were walking by (in the breezy, 50 degree weather mind you!) in swimming attire, with towels! We finally discovered that the river we'd found was near where a boiling stream ran into the cold river. Arrange a few rocks to hold in some of the warm water in pools, and voila, a warm bath tub! Pretty cool. :) And provided some neat pictures of the steamy-ness. However, because of all the people, we weren't able to skip stones, and so left the park in favor of a river closer to home that we could play in. The Gardiner River runs right in front of our "driveway" entrance, so we ended up there, playing "bomb the ship". Daddy would throw a stick into the river from a ways upstream, and the kids would watch for it coming, rocks in hand. Once somebody spotted it, all rocks let loose! We did it until we noticed some fishermen getting ready to head out into the river for a fishing expedition. We wouldn't have been very popular if we kept up the racket we were, so Daddy called a ceasefire, and we went on home. This was probably pretty much the first day we actually were home in time for a normal supper time. :)