Yellowstone & Grand Tetons, Wyoming

Day 1 in Yellowstone, we arrived at Old Faithful just in time to see it erupt and have a bite to eat before walking around all the other geysers in the area. We were very lucky because we also got to see Beehive erupt...
and Beehive (above) only erupts every 12 hours or so.

One of many photographs of bison (slightly out of sequence from the narrative! Sorry.)

And this is Old Faithful erupting for a second time just as we finished our walk. After all that walking it was about time to check into our hotel for the night, it was well timed as it started to snow shortly after arriving at the hotel. This is what we woke up to on the 29th May - not what

I normally have to do on my summer hols! We drove down to Grand Tetons for the day and boy, was it cold. We rode a small boat across Jenny Lake and then walked back to the car via Hidden Falls, the children had great fun playing in the snow on the way back.

Tom had been a bit under the weather since the start of the holiday and his cough had gradually been getting worse and now conjunctivitus had reared its ugly head so we headed to the medical centre in Grand Tetons after we had finished the walk. $168 later we had a small bottle of eye drops to clear up the infection ($28 for the eyedrops, $140 for the consult - long live the NHS). The annoying thing was the conjunctivitus looked like it was already getting better before the consult, but as it's so contagious I felt obliged to go and cough up for the drops before we all ended up with it.
Over the next couple of days we did lots of driving around the park and walking and took loads of photographs, a decent selection are now posted on my Facebook page. We were lucky enough to see this little fellow just ambling through the park minding his own business...