Pink City Girl Turned Country

Isabelle loved horseback riding and wants a horse now..... Mom says nope! She was a natural and handled her horse the easiest. Great Job Izzy.

Amazing !!!!!!!!

Today was a good day for the Nilles'. We went whitewater rafting and horseback riding. The day started out great with a 2 hour horseback ride and then a 8 mile raft ride. We are exhausted and just drove back to West Yellowstone. Isabelle is a natural cowgirl and Christian is definitely a thrill rider.

Yes Linda we are all alive :)

Old Faithful not so much faithful

Another day on the happy trail. If you all are watching the daily news from the Nilles Vacation. We are on day 5 or 6 depending on if you count the first day which we started late that day.... anyway. Today was a lot of sun and a lot of wild life and geyser and hot springs. We went into Yellowstone National Park and traveled along until Old Faithful. For those who don't care skip ahead to the corrections. But, for those who are interested we went to many geysers and hot springs and after awhile they all started to look the same. Then, final the last one was Old Faithful .... well it was not faithful today. We waited 45 minutes after it was to go off that it finally did just like the many times prior. The kids did very well in the hot...hot...hot sun, Isabelle said "It looked like it was touching the clouds". Prior to the geyser going off Christian said "It was worse than watching paint dry but then said "WOW". Tomorrow we are going North to Gardiner, MT, to a place called The Flying Pig. No this is not an animal but a company that we will be whitewater rafting and horseback riding. This should be fun. More journaling later. Thanks for reading. Wish you all were here.

P.S. Correction to yesterday's posting. After a long day of discussion and a review of the internet we think that the moose are elk. We say an amazing amount of elk today.

Yellowstone we have arrived

Hi everyone-

The trip is going well we have ventured to Yellowstone National Park and will be here for the next five days. The change of scenery was nice and we like this KOA the best. Internet at our campsite is the best and all the space is a treat. Tomorrow we are off to Old Faithful. Oh, and I did not like the drive today there was a lot of close to cliff action. Linda you would have cried and screamed the whole way.

I have two picture for your viewing pleasure. Moose (unsure of plural) resting in an open field and we have finally seen the most expensive gas prices yet $4.39 in Yellowstone. That one hurts.....

We went on a long drive around the Grand Teton National Park yesterday and Christian took this picture. We went on an all day hike today and had a great time. We went up the mountain about 8000 feet. For us North Dakotan's that is a lot and all went well.... no injuries except tired feet. Tomorrow on to Yellowstone. Having a great time and weather is awesome. Thanks for all the comments and directions. Without Jamie's help we were in trouble. Of coarse we don't ask for directions :)

View from our campsite at Snake River, WY

Me again. We have a great site at Snake River. This is the view from our site and you can here the water running from this creek down to the Snake River. We are heading out to see the sights of Jackson and tomorrow hiking in the Tetons. Miss everyone and we keep saying that Mom and Dad would love this. Next time you will need to go....

Beautiful weather. Sunny, blue skies and about 80 today. Lows are around 45 to 50 which is nice for sleeping.

16th Anniversary

Yesterday was our 16th Wedding Anniversary. We enjoyed a very long but beautiful drive to Jackson, WY. We went thorough the Rocky Mountains. All I have to say is Brett did a fab job on driving the whole way, 11 + hours with a trail through a crazy amount of mountains. Christian took this picture at one of the turnouts. Good Jog CK.