Yellowstone

For the last couple of weeks I have been on an extended vacation.  I ended my job with England Logistics on July 20 and have been traveling ever since.  First I went up to Port Angeles, Washington with my parents to visit Michelle and Trevor.  We went to the beach, played in the river, ate pizza, and watched the Olympics.  Need I say more?  Then we went south to Yuba City and I spent a couple days enjoying the sun and seeing old friends.  

When I flew back to Utah last Tuesday, I had two days before going on the road again to see the sights at Yellowstone National Park.  There were 11 of us (all friends from Salt Lake) that went up there to a family cabin in Island Park for the weekend.  We had such a great time!  Here are some pictures from the Park.

Bison.

Mammoth Hot Springs (which is drying up)

Yellowstone Grand Canyon, just above the Lower Falls (that is the mist from the Falls you see at the bottom)

More of the Yellowstone Grand Canyon, beautiful huh?

On the drive home, just before we got to the West Entrance.  Amazing.  

Can't remember the name, but some of the most brilliant colors I have ever seen in a body of water.  Very cool. 

Junior

Meet Junior.

Meet Juniors hair.

Meet the clippers.

 

Junior's hair, meet the clippers.

Doesn't he look sharp?

Kim and Dave's Big Adventure

This is the moment you have all been waiting for! Actually, if you use Facebook you have likely already seen the pictures that are included in this link. However, I recommend checking out the link even if you have already seen the pictures. This link will take you to a Google map that maps out our trip through Italy and Switzerland.

If you zoom in to each city you will see the actual locations that we took the pictures in. Click on the red bubble to see the picture along with a few comments and a link to learn more about the place. We started in Rome and spent three days there. Then we went north to Florence for a day or so, then traveled to Cinque Terre, stopping in Pisa on the way (we were only there for about an hour and a half to take pictures and see the tower). Cinque Terre is really made up of five little towns on the coast, and you can see that in the pictures. Then we went up to Switzerland for a day and half . We stayed in Bern but flew out of Zurich. Very good decision, we loved Bern. Enjoy!

I apologize in advance that the vertical pictures don't fit inside the info window. I tried, but didn't have the time to figure out how to get it to work. I also recommend viewing this in Google Chrome. Click here if you don't have it.

Click here to see the map