Manwaring Established 2003

Yellowstone 2009- Manwaring Family Reunion We left Thursday and arrived in the afternoon to RAIN- LOTS OF RAIN then hail, then rain again. It would rain for a few minutes then stop long enough to get out chairs out and pitch our tent then it would start all over again. By dinner time it stopped enough to make a fire and cook our tin foil dinners. A Bison was in the camp area when we arrived and made its way over to our area. Here are some pictures of the bison and how close it was to our tent. Friday was a perfect day. Not too hot, not too cold and we took full advantage of it by starting the tour (7 cars) at 8am and not coming back to camp until 6pm. We saw almost all the sights and had a lot of fun with a great picnic lunch. It didn’t rain the entire day- thank goodness! We ended the day with Dutch-oven pizza and cobbler. YUM YUM!! Saturday we packed up camp and headed to Fire Hole River and Old Faithful and ended with a picnic lunch, just as it started to rain again. We saw lots of animals on the trip: Fox, Bison, Mountain goat, pelican diving in the river to get a fish, 3 grizzly bears (2 different times), raven-I don’t know if this counts as wild- life, but it is an animal, and deer. I think that is all of them? This is Ben with Ogden(nephew) feeding a chipmunk pine nuts. It was a fun trip and hope to go back soon to see more of the beautiful area and go hiking!