And finally, we visited the Yellowstone Grand Canyon and then drove through the Tetons and Jackson Hole on the way out. We had quite a successful trip.

Wolves, bears, elk, coyotes and bison...oh my! We saw wolves and a mama grizzly and cub through a telescope so we have no pictures to prove it but we did have a bear cross the road in front of us and a buffalo walk through our campsite and put on quite a show.

From Portland we took the long drive through OR and Idaho to Yellowstone in WY. The first day we spent almost the whole day near Old Faithful and walked around and saw hundreds of other geysers and pools. It is just bizarre to walk around and see mud randomly bubbling, steam spurting and geysers just errupting.

The next day Trey, Grace and Grandma and Grandpa Dunham arrived. They drove out from Laramie and spent the rest of our vacation with us which was fun. We headed to the Oregon coast which was unbelievable it was so stunning. We camped right near the beach but the wind on the beach was so fierce and cold we had to hide in grass on the sand dunes just to sit and watch the ocean. The kids ran all over the sand dunes and even stuck their toes in the freezing cold water. We went a little north the next day to a beach where the kids found tide pools they could climb around in and search for sea anenomes, crabs and starfish.

After a day of rest, Aunt Sue took us to Multunomah Falls where we climbed up quite a ways to a river. The kids then climbed up the river on rocks for awhile, we picnicked and then hiked down.

Our next stop was Portland, OR where we stayed with Tim's Aunt Sue and cousins Cristin and James. It was great to have a "home" for awhile.