This was the 2nd day for the first trip in 1 1/2 years. I woke up early, around 6:30, at breakfast at the hotel. And then was ready to head back to Yellowstone National Park. The plan for this day was to first see the lower Geyser basin, which has numerous geysers, then from there we would see the nearby midway geyser basin, which has the biggest spring in the world. The from there we would see, Old Faithful the legendary geyser and other geysers around it.

My dad drove turned right from the Madison junction, heading toward the lower geyser basin. Just according to plan. But then, at some point we saw that many people had stopped to take the Low Flats drive for some reason. My dad thought there would be animals there, so we did the drive. Halfway through the short drive I spotted a huge herd of Bison on the right. This time there was babies, too. There was a river there, and I got to see the Bison drinking from it. As we went closer to the river to get a better look at the Bisons, we noticed that there was a small geyser in the river! Although the drive was not part of the plan, it was worth doing.

Then, just a few minutes later we reached the lower geyser basin. As I went to see the first geyser I noticed that the steam coming from the geyser smelled like rotten egg. It was disgusting, because I don’t like eating or smelling egg. But it wasn’t too severe, so I could handle it. It was a 0.5 mile round trail hike and there were a few geysers, that were all similar and one hot spring that had water the color of turquoise! This lower geyser basin, was not even as close as impressive to the one we were gonna see next.

At the beginning of the midway geyser basin hike, there was a bridge that crosses a fast flowing river. And on he left, hot water from the biggest spring in the world was coming down and mixing with the cold water! After we all climbed up the steps I was lost in a cloud of fog. You see, since it was the biggest spring in the world, it also releases a lot of steam. Luckily, after a few seconds the fog was gone and I could see again. The spring was REALLY wide, REALLY DEEP and it held a LOT OF WATER, and according to a nearby sign, the biggest spring was called the Excelsior spring.

If the Excelsior spring wasn’t enough the one we were going to see next must be enough. The Grand Prismatic Spring. From far away the steam rising from the spring, is a shade of blue and red. It looks AMAZING AND COOL AT THE SAME TIME. As we got closer I noticed that the ground close to the spring were every color you could think of. And the Spring itself was no less awesome, than the Excelsior one. The water was turquoise and it still had steam, the color of red and blue. My dad said he hasn’t seen anything like the Grand Prismatic Spring in a long time! So after taking a few pictures of the Spring we headed back to the car.

Finally, just before lunch we headed to our final planned destination. The Old Faithful area, Which includes the Old Faithful geyser that erupts every hour and a half. At the Old Faithful area, there was a lot of crowd, in which I thought was for the geyser. Later, I found out it wasn’t only for the Old Faithful Geyser, it was also for the other geysers in the area, such as Grand and Castle.

There was this place up ahead in which people were gathering to watch the geyser explode. We were about to head toward the area, until I saw a sign. It showed the predictions of when each geyser may explode. for Old faithful it said 11:45 AM +/- 10 mins. It was 11:42 AM at the time, so we wouldn’t have to wait too long. When we were at the area, I couldn’t see anything in the front because a bunch of people were all gathered there. But my Mom told me, since I was a kid that I could go in the front. So I did that and had a great view of the geyser. And luckily just after a few minutes the geyser exploded and I got to take a 5 star video. The waters maximum height, while exploding, was 100 ft!

After we all ate lunch we took the 1.2 mile round trip around the Old Faithful area. The first stop was the Castle Geyser. That Geyser would explode, at predicted time 2:15 +/- 45 mins. That time was far away, since it was 12:40. We would come back to the geyser, around 1:30 to see it explode. The next stop turned out to be the last stop for us, the Grand Geyser. And the prediction was 1:30 +/- 45 mins. Since there was a lot of crowd and we didn’t have anything else planned for that day, we decided to wait. A park ranger said it was worth the wait because the water height goes up to 200 feet high! That’s double the height of Old Faithful!

Spoiler alert. We waited for an hour and a half and the Grand Geyser didn’t explode. But you know what exploded? THE CASTLE GEYSER. Luckily, it was pretty close from where we were waiting. So I got to see the Castle geyser explode. If we had just waited there, we would have had a better view of it. But at least we saw the Old Faithful one explode! Also, while we were waiting for grand to explode, my dad spotted a squirrel like creature hiding behind the rocks. It was orange, yellow and had a little bit of white. Later, I found out it was a Yellow Bellied Marmot. So YEA NEW ANIMAL!

Since it was only 2:15, we headed back to the car and headed toward West Thumb. We headed there because my dad wanted coffee. At West Thumb though, there were no places that you would get coffee, so we kept heading toward the east toward Lake Village. Just after we left West Thumb, My dad spotted 3 Male elks on the right. I knew they were male because they had long and thick antlers. This was the first time we had seen Elk in the park.

When we reached Lake Village, we found out that there was nothing there except a huge hotel. But we still had a lot of time, so my dad drove to the Fisher mans bridge. Which according to the map states that you may see Grizzlies. We did not. But since there was a general store nearby that had an ice cream which only costed 99 cents. And it tasted good. After I finished the Mint chip ice cream it was around five so we started to head back to West Yellowstone hotel.

During the drive back, we didn’t see any animals. So when we reached 2 hours later, we had dinner at this Chinese place, and that basically ended the 2nd day of the trip.