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throwback thursday (august 10, 2022)

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washington

Another day. Another new state. We had only planned a quick stop in Washington during our drive from Idaho to Oregon to visit the Riverfront Park in Spokane. Since we ended up spending a couple extra days in Idaho we decided to take a day trip to Spokane (only a

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idaho

A new state for all four of us - Idaho! Our last monarch butterfly emerged two days ago. Fun fact for Austin - the official state insect of Idaho is the monarch butterfly. So it made sense to release our last butterfly here. When we left Montana the fires were

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something old, something new

Our second trip to Glacier we did some things that we did back in 2018, sprinkled in with some new things. Plus we saw a bunch of cool animals... On our way back to the bus last night we asked the girls which they liked better - Glacier or Yellowstone.

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glacier

Glacier National Park was not one of our stops when we were planning our roadtrip this summer. We visited in 2018, but during our trip the west part of the park was closed because 11,000+ acres were on fire. Last week our plans changed a little bit and we

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friends in montana

We've been going non-stop since we left home, so it was nice to visit our friends for a couple days with no plans except to hang out and relax. Olivia swapped out her hiking shoes for her fancy shoes for the occasion. Our home for the next couple

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last day in yellowstone

Today was our final day in Yellowstone. Top thing on our list was to take the short hike to the Grand Prismatic Spring overlook. We checked out the spring on our first day, but never made it up to the overlook. It's way cooler from up high. The

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whitewater rafting

There were two things I really wanted to do on our summer road trip - (1) horseback riding and (2) whitewater rafting. We checked horseback riding off the list on Monday. Today we checked off whitewater rafting. The girls didn't know what whitewater rafting was, so about a

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long day

We started the morning off by releasing one of our monarch butterflies. After that we did a lot of driving through the upper loop of Yellowstone. Our first stop... Mammoth Hot Springs. Our next stop was the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and the Lower and Upper Falls. Those waterfalls were

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bears, horses and a rodeo

We started our day with a visit to the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center. Olivia really wanted a picture with the otters, but they swim so fast! Emma got a little luckier. This one came right up behind her. Later this afternoon Emma and I went on a trail ride.