Day 3-old faithful/hiking

Editors Note: since we were in Yellowstone all day we had neither wifi nor cell signal to post with. Due to popular demand, we will try to post twice a day from here out!

Omer Donmez and Colin Cummings Monday, June 23, 2008

This morning after we woke up we had an egg breakfast. Then we had the flag ceremony and discussed what we were doing today. Then, when we were getting ready we saw a pair of otters chasing ducks in the lake by our campsite. We got a few pictures and they will be posted.



Now we are on our way to Old Faithfull. Every day before we go into the cars two people pick who goes in there car. Today in our car it is Will, Colin, Hank, Omer, Mr. Zimmerman and Mr. Seibt. In the other car it is Jack, Jake, Kevin, Mathew, Mr. Stark, Mr. Cummings, and Mr. Hehman. On the way to old faithful we saw lots of bison, and we saw a bird that looked like a Crain. Hank fell asleep once again on the ride to old faithful. Colin took a very good picture of him.

When we got there Old Faithful had already erupted so Jack, Kevin, and Jake went to get some information. The next eruption was in about an hour and a half, so we took a walk around the place. There was a boardwalk path winding around all sorts of other geysers, some small, some big. A couple of them were just as clear as a swimming pool. When we were about finished with the walk we saw a musk rat swimming in a little stream. Then we got back and Old Faithful erupted at last. The eruption was huge and seemed to last for about two minutes.

After Old Faithful performed, we went to the old Faithful gift shop. Everyone bought at least something. After we went back to the cars we left to go to solider bridge and ate lunch. We stopped by a river and pulled the coolers out of the van and feasted on ham, salami, turkey and bologna. Jack chose to ease some of the local organic cuisine. There were several hot springs next to the river where we enjoyed lunch.
Afterwards we went on a 3.9 mile hike to freight road trail head. Hank threw up about half way through. While we were walking we saw an elk, bison and even a detached bison leg.
We also found a hot springs called “oje Caliente” which is “hot eye” in Spanish. We stopped at a waterfall and got a few pictures. We went to fire-hole road and relaxed in the river. We headed back to camp and on the way back we saw a couple of elk on the side of the road and one had a radio collar on. We stopped at a market to get our dinner and it took forever!

P.S. King Louie my glasses are transitions.

Old Faithful