Yellowstone: Fullmer Family Reunion

August 10, 2011

Yellowstone: Fullmer Family Reunion

At the end of July, Aaron's mom's family has a reunion with all 8 siblings and families every 2 years, equals around 130 people! This year it was in Island Park, ID in some sweet cabins. It was beautiful and super fun, and Yellowstone National Park was only 20 minutes away! The first day, we left our house at 4:30am to make it up their early enough to do activities! The boys went golfing and the girls went on a day trip around Yellowstone! Our first siting was a family of elk sun bathing on a little island in this river. One elk got like 20 feet away from the crowd of people, then trudged through the water to get to his family!

Then, we headed to Geyser Basin! The geysers sure are stinky! We walked around the basin along the path behind the kids way down there! It was a beautiful day! Chantilly loved giving her brother a hand!

Taking a little break!

On our way from our cabin to the main cabin, we came upon two mooses? Meeses? Moose? eating grass right off the road! They were huge with big racks!

We made a trip to the Canyons in Yellowstone. We had a nice, yet difficult hike to see beautiful waterfalls!

We had to go down like 350 stairs to get to the viewing platform. Grandma did sooooo awesome!

Panoramic shot of the Canyons waterfall and river

An awesome family photo, before our ascent back up the stairs! At least we traded off kids, so it wasn't too bad!

Farther down the falls! All of these waterfalls made me want to watch The River Wild (It is a movie with Meryl Streep)!

Another awesome family photo!
Not Pictured: Getting huckleberry ice cream in West Yellowstone and walking around to the different shops, buying my souvenir of earrings, floating the river with the kids and stopping to rinse off in a naturally warm hot spring waterfall, our amazing cabin with a hot tub, and the ginormous main cabin owned by a few of the relatives!