Today we started our day by packing up in West Yellowstone and heading over to Old Faithful. Before we left town we decided to stop at McDonald's and order from the Breakfast Dollar Menu. This turned out to be impossible being that they didn't have one. Those Sausage burritos that are normally a dollar were $2.39 at this McDonald's! We decided to go find a grocery store and take our chances there.
When we arrived at Old Faithful we had about an hour before the estimated time that it was supposed to go off again. It was bad timing but we decided to make the best of it and we went and watched two informational DVDs on Yellowstone. This turned out to be very educational for both the kids and us. I learned several things from the park that I didn't know before the DVD. After these two videos we went out to watch Old Faithful. We sat for a few minutes and then it started to go off. We had a great view of the geyser.
After we were done watching the geyser that morning we decided we better get going on our 600 mile journey for the day. As you can expect we did not make too many stops, however we still had fun and did take in some very beautiful sites. Above you can see a picture of a valley taken from the top of Big Horn Mountain. It was a very scenic drive and I highly recommend it to anyone. When we came out of those mountains we soon came upon Cody, Wyoming. As you can see from the picture below they have a huge rodeo stadium. 
The picture below shows a National Monument called Devil's Tower. This was one of our few planned stops for this leg of the trip and was well worth it. We almost didn't go to this one because it was about an hour out of the way, but we were all very glad we did go. It is an amazing site. This pictures doesn't show the massive size of this structure because it doesn't show the top. However I think you can still get an idea of what it looks like.
After we left Devil's Tower we kept on going east. After going clear across the state of Wyoming today we passed into South Dakota as you can see in the picture above. It was really dark when we took this picture and the sign being reflective didn't help matters. I hope that explains the poor quality of the picture.
Around 10:30pm we finally reached our destination for the day. We stayed with Uncle Dennis and Aunt Lurlene in Rapid City, South Dakota where they are serving on a LDS misson. It was a lot of fun staying the night with them. When we arrived Aunt Lurlene asked the kids if they were hungry and made them snacks. Uncle Dennis kept tormenting the kids by throwing blankets over them. It was a good stop.
Around 10:30pm we finally reached our destination for the day. We stayed with Uncle Dennis and Aunt Lurlene in Rapid City, South Dakota where they are serving on a LDS misson. It was a lot of fun staying the night with them. When we arrived Aunt Lurlene asked the kids if they were hungry and made them snacks. Uncle Dennis kept tormenting the kids by throwing blankets over them. It was a good stop. 
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