In the afternoon we visited the Hall of Heroes. Luke and Leobreally loves the place. The curator was a really nice man who was great to talk to.

The only thing left to do is the Newmar Factory tour.

Jewel Cave was more impressive than I thought it would be.

Once we were done hiking we went back to the RV to hang out with the dogs, and Amy suggested that we leave for Yellowstone early, as there wasn’t much going on. This was about the fourth of her fantastic ideas, because we had a 650 mile drive to get to Yellowstone, and I wasn’t looking forward to it. But now I could take a couple of hundred miles off which would make the next day so much better. I just love this girl. Sir we took an hour and packed up, and got on the road. We stayed in Gillette Wyoming, I don’t Walmart. It worked out great because we did some shopping after we parked and also got some gas At a flying J.

We tried to stop at Old Faithful with the RV, but there was no room to park. So we drove around the parking lot, gave up, and went straight to the campground.

We arrived at Yellowstone Grizzly RV park in that first we were pleasantly surprised. Although the sites were very small and close together, it was an extremely well taken care of place.

We set up our camp site, had dinner, and then Amy and I went out to do some shopping while the boys stayed in the RV and watched a little TV. It was a really nice day overall.

Afterward, we went straight to the old faithful geyser. We ate at the snack shop while waiting for the next predicted irruption, which was at 1:04 PM.

It was amazing to see Old Faithful irrupt for the second time in 22 years. The first time was when Amy and I got married and we were on our honeymoon.

After we saw the geyser erupt, we went into the gift store and I got my passbook stamped. Amy bought a water bottle and some other little items, and we headed back to the campground.

When we got back to the campground, Leo really wanted to go to this ropes and zip line place around the corner. So Leo and I went, and Amy stayed back in the RV with Luke and play Monopoly.

Leo was really terrific, even though we had a little problem. Leo got stuck halfway across a zip line. He was in the middle of a 200 foot wire that was fout \240stories above the ground just dangling. At first he panicked a little, but then I told him to pull himself the rest of the way across one hand at a time. He composed himself, gathered some courage, and pulled himself all the way across. I was so proud of him. Afterward he was just proud of him self. He thought he was a “real adventure,“ because he had rescued himself and been courageous.

After Gibbons falls, we headed over to the Norris Geyser Basin. This is a fairly large area with many hiking trails and Boardwalk throughout. It’s all on top of a very geothermal area. We saw many geysers, vents, and Hot Springs.

It was a 3 mile walk in total and it was nice getting the exercise in the morning.

Our next stop was Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. This was a truly amazing place. Beautifully colored canyon created by the Yellowstone River. We drove to the top parking lot parked and walked the north rim Trail, and then the Red Rock Trail to the bottom of Lower Falls.

On our way back to the campground we spotted a Coyote who must’ve done something to a crawl because the crowd was chasing him across the field. It was so cool.

When we arrived back at the campground, the boys went to the playground and we did some laundry. We cook some sausages on the grill, and after dinner Amy and I went for a nice bike ride and spoke to some people about their entire career coach. I was impressed that it was only 280k.

Everybody was exhausted so we came straight home and had some lunch and rested for a while. Then the boys went to the playground while Amy and I did some laundry and cleaned up the RV. In the afternoon we headed back out to Yellowstone so the boys could finish their Junior Ranger programs. We went to a Ranger led program at Norris geyser basin and the boys were sworn into the junior rangers there as well.

Afterward we went to Canyon Village for a quick supper to celebrate.

Amy was looking over our itinerary and figured out that we lost a day and had no place to camp tomorrow night. So I was able to book our site for one night at a KOA.

Afterward we headed back to the RV and had dinner and killed some time. The weather was bad so there was not much to do.

We headed down to Moab afterward, and Crack-docked in Springdale Utah. We love Cracker Barrel!

We’re headed back to the RV for dinner and experienced our first desert monsoon together. After the monsoon was done, I took a terrific picture of Amy and saw the most vivid rainbow I’ve ever seen in my life.

I just love this girl.

That was it for the day. Time for cookies and bed.

After our hike we went back to the visitor center and the boys got sworn in as junior rangers for Arches national Park.

We then headed back to the campground for some pool time. It was hot again today and we needed to cool.

After spending about three hours at the pool, we went back to the RV and relaxed for a bit. Amy and Luke played some monopoly, and I just putzed around at the RV. We then decided to head over to canyonlands national Park so the boys could pick up their junior rangers books. I was surprised by how beautiful canyon lands ones. It exceeded my expectations and we never even explored it yet.

We headed back to the RV stopping at Denny’s for dinner. This made Leo exceptionally happy! The kids just loves Denny’s \240restaurants.

After looking at Shaffer Canyon, we went to Mesa arch. It was a short hike to the arch, but what was amazing was the drop on the other side of the arch. It must’ve been at least 500 feet straight down.

I have to Mesa, we wanted to get the boys their junior ranger badges, so we left for the visitor center. They were sworn in by a wonderful guy who was so good with them named Gary.

Leo had really been wanting to go to the dinosaur spot on the corner bar canyonlands national Park, so we did. We had a nice walk with over 100 dinosaurs and explanations and descriptions.

After the dinosaur Park we headed home. Leo and I went grocery shopping, I’m Luke and Amy played Monopoly again. When Leo and I came back we all took a little dip in the pool.

After our Quiktrip we return back to the camper and just hang out and relax for the rest of the day. I was excited to go horseback riding with Lukie tomorrow, even though it was sad that Amy couldn’t make it because she wasn’t feeling well.

How are gods name was Keegan and he was very funny young man. Lukes horse was named Ishel, and my horses name was Nettie.

When we were done with our ride we headed back to the campground and had a quick lunch. Then all four of us went out to work on the junior ranger badges. We saw sunset point and price point before we headed over to the visitor center to see a Ranger program.

When we got back to the campground, Leo and I went and did laundry together.

I was really proud of the boys today, they finished their eighth Junior Ranger badge.

When we got to Zion our campsite was ready. A really nice side by the river with some decent shape. We set up so quickly and the boys played in the river. For some reason they just love rivers. I have to remember that next time we book campsites, that is to try and book sites that are on a river.

The boys were very tired after playing in the river and so we went into town and ate at a great little asked restaurant called meanies grill. I had a vegetable crêpe and it was delicious. Amy had a vegetable grilled cheese and she liked it as well.

After the hike we came back to the RV and relax for a little while. The boys played in the river again and I returned a few emails and did some work. Later in the afternoon we decided to head out for ice cream and then to Walmart to do some shopping. When we got back to the RV we just heated up some leftovers and eat outside of the table. I played some rummy with Luke and the boys had some screen time before bed.

Amy had a feisty little mare named Daisy, Luke had a sweet little gelding named Concho, and \240Leo had a mule named Fanxy, which he thought was a horse. We let him think that.

As we rode through Zion Canyon Leo continue to have hikers if they wanted to pet his horse, and telling them that there was a new sheriff in town partner.

In the afternoon we went out for a ride and made an impromptu stop at ghost town called Grafton. It was a pretty cool place in the graveyard was full of people who have died in 1866, and the whole family who have died from Indians.