Our Vacation Souvenirs

Whenever you go to somewhere memorable, whether it be for an just for an afternoon or a whole month, it's fun to get a souvenir to remember it by.  Elizabeth and I did just that this summer.

 When we went to the American Girl store in Denver, I got the 2-in-1 Surf Swimsuit.

 And Elizabeth picked out Marie-Grace's Skirt Set.  We're both very happy with our choices.

 In Yellowstone, we bought this hand-made platter and a "Yellowstone National Park" mug, which we use all the time.  And in Rocky Mountain Nat. Park we purchased the white mug.  One mug for each of us!

 Does this picture look familiar? It's from my Puppy Love: a Photoshoot post.  I'm wearing the City Sunglasses, "Beach Girl" shirt, and jeans from the American Girl store in Seattle, where we also bought...

... This AG Seattle shirt.  I have a few other AG store souvenir shirts, but this one's my favorite, because it's so comphy that I could sleep in it!  (You know, I might do that someday.)

We got all these, plus TONS of postcards!

What are your favorite kind of souvenirs?  We'd love to hear!

July 22-26: Our Week at Yellowstone National Park

First of all, I appreciate your patience as I wrote this post.  I know it's over two weeks since Chrissa last posted.

We had a great time in Yellowstone National Park!  We hiked, took many pictures (that's part of the reason that you had to wait so long for this post), waded across mountain streams, breathed fresh mountain air, ate picnic lunches in the park, and, most of all, gasped at astonishing views.

Sunday, July 21, we drove 300 miles and stayed at a Holiday Inn. 

The next day, Monday, we drove through Grand Teton National Park on our way (the mountains at the top of the picture); and gladly arrived in Yellowstone.

Tuesday Chrissa and I enjoyed the park.  We hiked to Wrath Falls (1&2); gobbled up lunch (well, at lest Chrissa did) by a river (3); saw Mammoth Hot Springs (4&5); stopped by Gibben Falls (6,7&8); and lastly briefly glanced at Sheepeater cliff (9&10).

  

On Wednesday, we witnessed many interesting things, including a bison walking right in front of our car!  We also saw beautiful Tower Falls.

Thursday obviously not the only day we saw waterfalls and rivers, but that's the main thing that we looked at.  Inspiration Point was not very inspiring, because the part where you saw the beautiful view had fallen off in a earthquake.

Our last day in the Park, Friday, we spent our time around Old Faithful area.  (From top to bottom, left to right): A waterfall (I don't remember the name); Celestine Pool; Clepsydra Geyser, Silex Spring, Old Faithful; and Old Faithful Lodge (where we had lunch).

That was our amazing week at Yellowstone National Park.

Why We Haven't Been Posting

Hi all!  First of all, Elizabeth and I have not been posting because in order to have internet acess in your room, you have to pay fifteen dollers for three days.  Which we think is to much.  So how am I posting this? you ask.  Well, there is a business center on the 1st floor, and I have acess to that.  But there's no place to put in my SD card in the computer, so, unfortunately you can't see any of the hundreds of pictures Elizabeth and I have taken since we arrived in Yellowstone National Park on Sunday.  Hopefully, we will have pictures in the next post.



We're All Packed up and Ready to Go!

Well, Chrissa and I are completely done packing for our vacation near Yellowstone National Park.  We'll start driving tomorrow, and will be driving for the next two days.  So, we probably won't post again until we arrive in Yellowstone.  Really, I can't believe that our time in Colorado is done already!  It seems only last week that we came.