Day 8 — Yellowstone National Park
The next morning, we got into the car to go see the Yellowstone Grand canyon, which was like the Grand Canyon, except the river was still flooding the canyon, and the canyon was a lot smaller than the grand canyon, though the river cascaded in multiple small waterfalls, leading the water into a single bigger waterfall. It was gorgeous!

After that we went to do a trail around the Yellowstone lake. This was a 3 mile round trip trail, half of it along the shores of the lake and half of it in a beautiful forest. It was mostly on level ground and not too difficult.
After that, we went to see the Mammoth hot springs, which had changed a lot from the time the national geographic pictures came out. The stone had turned white from the original rainbow colors, and the whole thing seemed to be bleached and faded. It was still pretty, but it was not how it had been 10 years ago. We walked on the trail around the springs.

We then decided to go to Lamar Valley which is a meadow with a river and apparently a lot of animals hang out there. We drove around, sometimes at the speed of bison, if there were any bison on the road, and let me tell you, was really slow. We reached the Lamar Valley in search of a bear to see. We had no such luck, though other people seemed to have set up with scopes in search of one, also leaving empty-handed, though with a lot of pictures of bison, which seemed to be everywhere. We did end up going on a trail, which was fun, but my dad was making loud noises and was acting in a really funny way in hopes of scaring away any bears, because he was scared that a bear would attack him.
With the day spent and the sun going low, we headed back to the hotel to eat and sleep before we moved out. We had walked almost 7 miles, doing 3 trails that day.
