Island Park, Virginia City, and Yellowstone

Prepare for a picture overload with these. Here are some photos from our trip! We had such a fun time. Hope you enjoy these!

 Beautiful Big Springs

 Mama and baby moose getting into someone's garbage

 On our drive to Virginia City, Montana.

 Creepiest manequin (spelling?) I have ever seen

 Now, let me tell you about Virginia and Nevada City. These are two old mining towns right next to each other. They have a lot of historic homes and stores... which means there are creepy old things (and some cute things too). The drive to these lovely places is one of my favorites.

 Just an examples of cuteness in Virgina City

 This train is not so cute. super creepy actually

 The name of this house was the "Gingerbread House." Very fitting, don't you think?

 Nevada city is complete ghost town. 

 Mammoth Hot Springs!

Such a fun trip. It was about 50 degrees every day, which meant sweat shirts, slippers, and hot chocolate most nights. It was so dark up there that we easily slept in passed 10:30. Oh the joys of going on vacation....

A few other highlights that I didn't get pictures of:

-Beautiful Mesa Falls! The colors of the leaves were very pretty here

-Reading all the brochures and manuals on what to do when you encounter a bear (VERY informative. I feel very prepared for an encounter now)

-going hiking in yellowstone in a herd of like, a HUNDRED buffalo. one was walking right towards us on the trail, even when we tried to go around it!

-A poor deer got stuck down by the river. :( Steven tried to get close to scare it so it would move, but it wouldn't budge. He got some cool pictures. The poor thing was bleeding really bad on its bum. :(

Well, that is our fall break for you. Now I will finish applying for the Social Work program, study for the GRE, and write lots of papers.