Good morning, afternoon, evening, night, or whenever you read this. For the first time ever, I, Robert Coffman, am writing a blogpost on our family site. This entire site and our long history of family posts has been maintained soley by my amazing wife (with a couple of farm updates by Bryse)! This is a blog entry about our family trip to Yellowstone National Park. We actually had t-shirts made as you can see in the above photograph.
Not only did we travel to Yellowstone for vacation but we celebrated our 19th year of marriage and traveled to Texas for the funeral of Robert's grandmother (New Nanny). She always read and commented on this blog and that will be missed. Also we remebered the 11th birthday\anniversary of our deceased son Jasper and celebrated the 10th and 7th birthday of Wild Man and Hulk. Our vacation was a huge deal because.....we have NEVER had a family vacation. Well, not really. Our whole 19 years of marriage has involved time off as traveling to Arkansas or Texas to see family. Even though it is nice to see them, it is usually not a vacation! Once, when Tender was young we went to St, Louis for a weekend and another time we travelled to Nashville to see an old college friend after she married. Lindsey’s parents took us to Disney World when we only had Tender. But that’s it. Other than Tender, and like, oh, 17 years ago, we haven’t done anything as family. So, this was first for most of the kids. Many of you may have different opinions about the government giving out money but we didn’t think too much about all the COVID relief and we put it back in the economy with a huge vacation. We actually used a travel agent. Her name is Jennifer and she did a fantastic job. She travels to Yellowstone often and booked everything we needed and even planned our trip. Her website is www.whimsicalvacations.com and I highly recommend her. Not only did we use an agent, we flew there! The whole family, all eight of us. We traveled from August 4-10, 2021. We drove to Kansas City and flew from there to Salt Lake City. We rented a large family van, which there are many of them in Salt Lake, and we drove the 4.5 hours through Utah and Idaho to reach Yellowstone. We stayed at a huge cabin in a small town about 20 minutes away from West Yellowstone. We had three full days to explore to Yellowstone before heading out. We then drove back to Salt Lake and enjoyed almost two full days in Salt Lake. Here is how we explored Yellowstone. Day 1: Lower Loop focusing on Grand Prismatic, Lower Geyser Basin, Midway Geyser Basin, and Old Faithful. We really enjoyed combining the Grand Prismatic Observation hike with the Fairy Falls Trail. This is about a 5 mile out and back easy hike. Day 2: Canyon Area- Check out Gibbon Falls, Artist Paintpots, Upper Falls and Lower Falls, and Artist Point Day 3: Yellowstone Lake area- Check out Yellowstone Lake and Hayden Valley for some wildlife sightings In Yellowstone we also visited a wolf and bear sanctuary and attended a rodeo. In Salt Lake we did a lot of resting but went to the Mormon Temple Square (which made me feel nauseous), visited a huge aquarium, watched a movie, ate some good food, and went onsite to where High School Musical was filmed (which you can guess was not my idea). For most of the kids this was not only their first vacation but also first time flying. I hope you enjoy the pics below!!!
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