Yaaawn! I am Finally Home!

     Yes I am finally home from my trip. This trip with my family was so much fun, I couldn't believe it.
Let me give you, in a nutshell, what we did!

• Friday- Packed like crazy and loaded all of it into the small Ford F-150 with a shell.
• Saturday- Bought ice and loaded the final things, like the small laptop computer and then we went to McDonald's for breakfast...I know totally fast food...BUT we were out of the house by 9:30 in the morning! Drove for a long time through Idaho and into Montana to get to West Yellowstone, where we stayed overnight at a KOA for three days...and set up camp.
• Sunday- we went into the park and visited all of the northern attractions such as Mammoth Hot Springs and went to the bubbling mud pots and other fun sites. We returned to West Yellowstone about 7:00 where we went to Buckaroo Bills BBQ House...I was really good. When we got back to camp we showered and sat around the campfire until bedtime
• Monday- We did the lower loop of Yellowstone and went and saw the Artists Paint Pots and several sulfur geysers, and not to mention Old Faithful. Later on we went to the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake where Bryan tried to fish and I stuck my feet in the water. We went back to West Yellowstone about 5:00 and went to a cute little cafe called the Geyser Grill. My brother and I went swimming in the icy cold swimming pool that the KOA had until we decided to get into the hot tub, then realized that we needed to be back at the campsite in 10 minutes so I left to go shower and Bryan went back to the campsite. Then we had s'mores and went to bed.
• Tuesday- The last day of Yellowstone. We went to the upper and lower falls and the observation points, and the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, and then went out the east exit of Yellowstone. Our destination Powell. A small town where we had the best food and Chicken Noodle Soup that I ever had. (Go to Hansel and Gretles if you're interested...) and stayed in a small old and well kept hotel. There we stayed for one night, and then went to Sheridan where we would have stayed at a KOA but we decided to go sleep in some real beds and went to Days Inn Hotel instead. I do have to say that it was totally worth it. On the way we went to see the Indian Medicine wheel. It was really interesting to see that the Native Americans still treat it as a sacred place and use prayer offerings of tobacco and prayer cloths. It was really cool.
• Wednesday-This day was a museums day. We went to a lot of museums and then went back to Day's Inn, and went to sleep.
• Thursday-We went to Custer's Last Stand Hill and memorial and went on a little tour of the national park. It was really interesting, although I am not a big fan of Custer. 
• Friday- We traveled to Rapid City, South Dakota, and saw some more museums there. We stayed at a Super 8 Motel and nearly died of heat...
• Saturday- We toured the famous monuments of Mount Rushmore, and Crazy Horse. The difference between the two? Mt. Rushmore was completed a while back and a government funded project. Crazy Horse is a working progress and funded by only donations of the visitors of the park. Construction is still led by the Zilokowski sons when the artist, Korczak Zilokowski died. Construction began in 1948 and only the face of Crazy Horse is completed. When completed, Crazy Horse will be the largest stone carving in the world. We toured the museums and then..Gift shops. We all got a T - Shirt and Bryan got a really cool necklace.After that we traveled to Cheyenne where we spent the night again at a Super 8 which was...strangely....a carbon copy of the Super 8 in Rapid City. The only difference was the AC was newer. Train tracks were next to the hotel and it is a wonder that we never heard a thing during the night. Maybe we were too tired...
• Sunday- We woke up, packed and left to go see one last thing...Big Boy. The largest locomotive in the US. There were only 25 made, and...don't ask how I remember this...the serial number was 4004. After seeing that we headed straight west from Cheyenne to out little domestic house, somewhere 450 ish miles away from Cheyenne. It took us 8 hours to get home and we can defiantly say that it was a sleeping and movie day. Thankfully I had other things to keep me busy like..ahem..summer homework.
• Monday- We slept in and did house cleaning chores all day...
• Tuesday- Woke up at 8:30 and decided to do this blog post before I forgot it all....

Thank you for being patient for the last 9 days and I hope that you were able to...sort of.... go on this trip together. I am planning to post my pictures to Facebook later on...maybe...just kidding!