Sunday, October 17, 2010

autumn road trip

A couple weeks ago Bret and I drove up to see his family in Liberty Lake, WA which is right on the border of Washington and Idaho. We've driven up there many times before so we decided to make the journey more interesting by driving through the Teton and Yellowstone National Parks to enjoy the fall foliage - and boy was it spectacular! I didn't really take too many pictures of the leaves (it's amazing how having a kid changes your priorities a little) but the picture above gives you a taste of what we saw.

Going that way made the travel time extra long so we decided to break it up into two days. The first day we drove up through Logan Canyon, past Bear Lake (where we had a delicious raspberry shake) and then up to Jackson Hole for the night.

Pulling over for some burp time. Ethan was a great sport.
The only picture we took in Jackson Hole. Nothing exciting but it proves we were there.
After a quick breakfast at the Bunnery, we headed North making our way through both parks. We made just a few stops to get out and enjoy scenery and to change a couple diapers.
Some wildlife close encounters.
Jackson Lake
Yellowstone
It's been 20 years since I'd been there with my family and Bret hasn't been at all so we really enjoyed it. I forgot how amazing and unique it is up there, almost like being on another planet.
Waiting on Old Faithful.

Thar she blows.
Ethan wasn't that impressed.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love Ethan. These pictures are comforting to me; I've been so afraid Fara is going to grow up way too fast, but I see she will still be small and snuggly even in a few weeks.

Catherine said...

I love the fifth picture, the one of him staring out of his car seat. Quite a cute kid you've got there.