Day 9: Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole We tried so hard to get up and go early but once again it didn't happen. We left around 10:15 to get to the Grand Teton National Park. In order to get there from our RV park, we actually had to drive through Yellowstone again. While still driving though Yellowstone, we happened upon a majestic elk just sitting between two trees. Grand Teton National Park is connected to Yellowstone but the area was designated as its own Na...

Day 8: Cody, Wyoming We decided to have a lazy morning since we have been on the go so much. The kids played in the park and went in the pool (we finally used our bathing suits!), even though the water was quite cold. They invented a game of throwing their flip flops in the pool and played it a lot longer than you'd think was possible. My mom and I dad laundry and Ellie read The Thirteenth Tale (one of my very favorite books) that just happened to be in the free...

Day 7: Yellowstone, Day 2 We slept a little later today than yesterday because we were all exhausted. The kids played in the little playground at the RV park, but Luca skinned his leg pretty badly going up the wooden part to get to the slide. A few bandaids later he was okay. On our way to Yellowstone we stopped to take pictures of a bizarre five-story wooden house with lots of balconies and several outdoor staircases on the top of a hill called the Smith Mans...

Day 6: Yellowstone The adults woke up around 6:30 and the kids woke up around 7:15. We left for Yellowstone around 8, which wasn't too terrible considering we haven't left earlier than 10:30 any other day on this trip. We drove through winding roads surrounded on both sides by the most amazing rock formations. We got to Yellowstone about 9:15 and there were only a few cars in line in front of us. The couple we talked to at dinner last night made it seem like the...

Day 5: Buffalo,Wyoming to Cody,Wyoming We drove through the historic main street of Buffalo which is best know for an old hotel called the Occidental where Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, and Calamity Jane have stayed. There is also a museum called the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum that is housed in an old Carnegie Library. Wanna know what Jim Gatchell did? You guessed it, he opened up the first drugstore in the county. I regret not going in, but we wanted ...