All that driving and we didn’t see Old Faithful erupt. We missed it by 10 minutes because of silly people not following the park rules when viewing wildlife. They just stopped in the middle of the road instead of pulling over.  And there was lots of wildlife to see. Bison, a variety of birds, sheep, elk, deer… no predators though. Yellowstone is also home to grizzly bears, black bears, mountain lions, and wolves. We saw plenty of herbivores though. I did have to add a picture of the fisherman in his natural habitat as he fly fishes along the rivers. (That’s for my father and my father-in-law who are fishing buddies. 😉)

So we pulled in and parked at the visitors center around 1pm. We found out that the next predicted eruption time was between 2:15-2:45pm. We decided to eat lunch, head into the gift shop (Mackenzie was IN LOVE with the polished stone collection), and check out the geyser. We also stopped to take a quick picture from a teepee set up by the geyser by the local Native American tribe. It was really neat. We planned on staying but it started raining and hailing! 

We were not prepared for that weather and, by the time we made it back to the car in under 3 minutes, we were drenched! The kind of drenched where you feel water running down your face! It was really wet. And the hail was the kind that stung when it hit. So we decided the picture in front of the non-erupting Old Faithful geyser would suffice. Lol. All in all, it made for a fun memory. 😊