long day
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We started the morning off by releasing one of our monarch butterflies.
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After that we did a lot of driving through the upper loop of Yellowstone. Our first stop... Mammoth Hot Springs.
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Our next stop was the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and the Lower and Upper Falls. Those waterfalls were huge, and so cool.
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To finish off the evening we drove through the Lamar Valley looking for wildlife.
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