Park City and Yellowstone

Finally back from our wonderful vacation to Park City and Yellowstone. We first went to Park City last Monday. We stayed at a wonderful resort called New Park Hotel. Thank you to Amber for giving me the idea of this awesome place to stay. We enjoyed our stay and swam a lot of the time. We also slept in the nice bed and lounged in our private hot tub. Dawson loved swimming so much, I did to but I am allergic to chlorine unfortunately. I usually am fine for one time swimming but if I do it more I break out if rashes all over my body. Well, I did and it still is here a week later. Anyway, we stayed at Newpark for 2 nights and just relaxed and enjoyed our time there. We then took off on Wednesday to Yellowstone. I actually drove there not Lucas that has never happened before. Lucas had some back issues he was dealing with so I said I would be brave and drive the way to Yellowstone. I actually did it and he and I are so proud of myself ha ha. We arrived at our first camp spot called "Buffalo" it is located in the Island Park area just outside of Yellowstone Park. My parents have property but have yet to build a cabin so we stayed at the camp site. My mom made all of us white chile and it was delicious. We met my Uncles partner for the first time and hung out with their kids. That night I had a hard time sleeping because it was hard to have Dawson cuddled up to me and also hoping nothing comes to get us in our tent ha ha. I heard some moose in the early morning and then I had a dream once was charging me. I had taken Benadryl that night so that explains my weird dreams. The next day we decided we would go rafting. We had our niece Mila in the raft with us and proceeded to tell Lucas he hadn't been helping at all with the paddling ha ha. We couldn't help at laugh she is only 7 years old. We got stuck on a couple rocks and our raft was slowly sinking but Lucas kept blowing in the hole to pump it up. I didn't even get wet luckily and my Dad met us at the end. We then made hobo dinners that night, and it was raining and storming. Lucas and my Dad made a covering for them so the fire wouldn't go out and our dinners would cook. They were successful and the dinners were delicious! The next day was Friday and we packed up our stuff and headed into the park in Yellowstone. We stayed at a place we stay at every time we stay in the Park. It is called Madison and it is located the west side of the Park. We set up our stuff and even chopped up a picnic table because our camp site had a tree fall over onto it the night before. Dawson helped Lucas put together the tent. The picnic table was destroyed and the camp host said we could use it as fire wood. We drove to Haden Valley and saw some Buffalo. We were kind of in a hurry so we weren't able to do much sight seeing. We did see a Moose on our way back to our camp spot. When we got back we had Taco Salad and my mom made us some yummy peach cobbler with Vanilla ice cream. We made it in her dutch oven and it was soooo goood! Then in the night I woke up and smelt some animals in the area. I was just hoping nothing would come bump in the night. The next morning I took my nephew Jack to the river with Dawson. Sure enough I had smelt something! Buffalo were right by the river and so I went back to our spot and told the others. My niece Lillie has really bad anxiety and made sure we didn't get too close. We then decided we should go sight seeing and see some animals. We went to Grants Village and ate some lunch and played in the Lake. Lillie helped me pick up some obsidian and I found her a piece too since she helped me. The clouds were getting darker and darker and heard thunder. We decided we better get in the car before we get caught in the storm.We then drove for a while and my parents decided to make some dinner nearby. I had shared a pint of ice cream with Lucas from the Fishing Bridge store. It's a tradition for me to always get the ice cream they have there. Also to get the yummy Farr's chocolates at the "Hungry Bear" grocery store in Island Park. I love the traditions so I have to do it especially if it is yummy. Lucas and I really wanted to see a bear so we looked around and sure enough we saw a Mamma Grizzly and her 3 cubs! We were so happy Lucas took a pic of the momma bear while the cubs were running around.We did momentarily see a wolf, well Lucas did I saw a spot but we were more interested in seeing a bear. Seeing a wolf is awesome though but it was just too far away to spot. I was very happy and satisfied with our finding. We then decided to go back get some food and head back to camp. We ate smores and that night we heard coyotes yelling pretty loud. We thought it may had been people screaming but I figured that out that it was coyotes. We said 3 prayers that night because we were nervous. I was a little on edge because of the bear attack 2 weeks before. And it was for no reason so I was a little scared. Dawson slept through the whole night and snuggled up to me. I was glad he was there to comfort me while I was scared. My brother was snoring loud and sometimes I would freak out and think it was an animal. They slept in the tent trailer and my parents slept in their camping van. We made it through the night and took off the next day. We had lots of fun and I will always leave stuff out but it was fun. I love camping and roughing it. Dawson had such a great time and he was tired by the end of it. He went to bed early we we got home that night and slept for 14 hours with minor interruptions. Here is a picture of me wiping off his face when he is done eating one of the days. I had to share his facial expression is too funny. :)