When we entered the park they gave us a park newspaper. Aaron was reading it and found a section about Old Faithful. He read that Old Faithful goes off every hour on the hour and that the park rangers control it. So we were headed to see Old Faithful and as we pulled into the parking lot, it was 5 minutes to the hour. So we jumped out of the car and ran as fast as we could so we wouldn't miss it! We raced over and joined a large crowd waiting to see the geyser go off. Well, the hour came and nothing happened. A few minutes went by and we were all wondering what was wrong. Aaron mentioned what he had read in the newspaper and my sister Wendy said that what he had read was the myths about Old Faithful. Apparently there had been two columns, one myths and the other truths. Aaron read the myths and thought they were true! So we waited awhile longer and finally Old Faithful went off.
That night we camped just outside the south gate. The mosquitos were horrible! We were so glad we had the motorhome to keep us away from them. But the kids didn't seem to mind and spent the evening outside making friends with other campers and learned a new game called Little Sally Walker. The next morning we were headed for Idaho Falls. We stopped in Swan Valley for some square ice cream cones. 
We had a great adventure driving across 4 states. And that is just the beginning of a month long vacation!
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Aaron cracks me up (even from far away). But even when you know when Old Faithful is going to go off it still feels like you are waiting forever! Maybe the rangers do control it and they just like watching all of us standing around waiting forever...they're somewhere laughing their heads off at all of us "tourists". Have a fun month off!
It really was a fun trip. Thank you for letting us come along for the ride. The motorhome was fun and watching your dad driving along, made me laugh. He loved it! I loved spending the time with you and the kids. They are fabulous travelers!
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