Whew, am I tired!! We spent a fairly full day in the Old Faithful area of Yellowstone. We saw it erupt three times, each time was very different. The kids did the Young Scientist program, which took us three hours. It's a great program. The kids get a book they need to complete about the area, from making a hypothesis to testing it and reporting your conclusions. They got to take temperatures of the hot springs with a laser thermometer, which was REALLY cool. Some of them were close to 200 degrees!
We also took a bike ride around the geyser basin, which was a quicker way to see a lot of the thermal areas. But wow! 7500 feet above sea level is a lot different than 1000. One mile felt like five.
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| Working on Young Scientist. |
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| Morning Glory Pool |
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| Old Faithful |
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| Geyser Basin |
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| Getting their badges |
Tomorrow we head back, maybe to the canyon area. Stay tuned!
I am taking notes on your Yellowstone adventures, as that is next year's big trip. Dan's parents are going to come visit at a time share near there, and we are going to go down and do the park with them. Are you planning to do Glacier National park? Might be your only chance to see a real glacier before they are all gone...
ReplyDeleteWe are still up in the air about Glacier. There is so much we want to do, we might not get home until December. LOL.
DeleteThis all looks so cool!!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to post this all! That morning glory pool is so beautiful. So I take it the water in it is very hot too?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're enjoying them! The Morning Glory Pool is a hot spring too, so yes, the water in extremely hot, over 200 degrees in the center. What's really interesting is that the blue areas are the hottest and the red areas are the coolest, because of the color of the bacteria that can live at the various temperatures. It's really fascinating.
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