Niagara Falls

9 Weeks, 25 States, 11,400 miles, and a few thousand dollars = memories that will last a lifetime...Priceless.

Mammoth Site

This is probably one of the coolest things i have ever seen.  So this building is built over this sink hole where they have found 61 mammoths bones.  They have only been digging for bones in this hole for a little over 40 years.  They only search for bones in July because they find enough bones and artifacts in July to keep them busy cataloging them throughout the year.  They also don't move the bones unless they are falling apart.  And guess what?  They have only found males in this hole because in the animal world when male adolescents start acting up they get kicked out of the herd/pack.  I like that kind of thinking :)

Mount Rushmore

This is one beautiful place.  They have a very moving lighting ceremony each evening, if you ever go make sure you see it.  

Yellowstone!!

The Roosevelt Arch.  The entrance way to Yellowstone in Montana, just a few miles over the border from where we were staying in mammoth hot springs, Wyoming.   

Old Faithful!!

The Grand Prismatic Spring. Just beautiful.

The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.  We walked down and stood at the top of lower falls.

Owen was so excited to go fishing, we took him on a fishing charter on Yellowstone lake.  

Tetons

The Tetons.  But more important than that, the second tallest mountain here is  called Mt. Owen.  :)

 There was a lot of smoke that was making a haze over the mountain range.  

Craters of the Moon

This is one cool place.  These rocks and hill we are standing on are all lava rocks.  We got to climb down into a cave that was where the lava once flowed.