I had wanted to take the girls to Yellowstone in the fall, but our first attempt fell through because of the weather. Instead we waited a couple of weeks, invited a friend and went on Saturday, October 10.
Ashley Harrison had previously served as a missionary in our stake, and we had kept in touch with her in Nevada after she went home. She is currently attending BYU-Idaho, so we texted her the night before to see if, by chance, she could spare a day and come with us. She had never been to Yellowstone before, so we got to show her Norris Geyser Basin, the Artist Paint Pots, Gibbon Falls and Old Faithful.
We left home at 7:30, picked up Ashley in Rexburg right after 8, spent the day in the park, stopped at the Old Faithful General Store to get ice cream right before closing time, then headed home, arriving right after 8 p.m. We saw four bison and a herd of elk bedding down next to the Madison River, along with a bunch of ravens, at least one squirrel and license plates from 39 states.
