Yellowstone Wyoming

We have been to Yellowstone now. We saw a white wolf on the way to Old Faithful which is a geyser. We saw some Elk which are like deer and two of them were fighting on land and in the water. There were three other girl Elks near them. We went and saw Old Faithful erupt and lots of steam and water came out and shot really high up into the sky. Like fireworks. And the water was very very hot and more than 12 people have been killed by standing in the hot water. We saw the Yellowstone canyon with a waterfall going down into it. At Yellowstone there were actually yellow stones.

We drove through Grand Teton and stayed the night at Jackson Hole. Early in the morning we dropped off our Aunty at the airport. She had to go back to England. It was nice having her with us because she is fun, like my mum. Then a few hours later we went up Jackson Hole Mountain in an aerial tram. It took us 12 minutes to get to the top of the mountain. I looked through a telescope and it looked very cool looking down the mountain. We were 10000 feet high. Then we saw 2 people go paragliding down the mountain it looked very fun to me and I really wanted to do it but mum said I am too young. Then it took us another 12 minutes to come down in the aerial tram. Next we drove to the Jackson Hole Visitors Centre and there were stuffed elk and it looked like they were running up a mountain. At the visitors center Julius and I bought a present for Mum. She doesn’t know what it is yet because it’s a secret. Then we went to some shops and Julius bought a potato gun the shoots little pieces of raw potato. Then we met our grandparents at a park that had huge arches made out of elk horns. I went to the art gallery with my grandparents and we saw very cool pictures and there was one of some wolves and some bears and some mountain goats. We saw lots of sculptures and some stuffed grizzly bears. That night we went to a cookout and we rode into Grand Teton Forest in wagons our driver’s name was Jordan. The horses names’ were Jack and Jill and they were both boys. We ate dinner outside, we ate chicken and it was very, very saucy. There was a mountain man named Buckskin, he was looking for somebody to marry. Then the Indians came and Buckskin rode off with them without someone to marry. Then I went up and sang she’ll be coming round the mountain with some other people. I was the ‘yum yum’ girl who ate all the chicken on the way, in the song. It was a little bit embarrassing but lots of fun. There was a grandpa who had to snore and he snored very very loudly in to the microphone. We listened to the band a bit. Then we went back in our wagon and went back to the place where we started. Our wagon letter was ‘H’ and our table number that we ate at was 11. We drove our camper back to the Fireside RV park and had a great sleep.

Getting to America

On August 29th at 11 am we boarded flight VA007. Finely we were on our way to L.A. On the plane I wached the Lorax, Beetlejiuce and a bit of the pirates. After that I went to sleep for a hour. We had dinner a midnight snak and brekfist.We were on the plane for 13 and a half hours. When we arived it was 7 am. We had traviled back in time. When we got to the hotel we went swimming. Then we went shoping and brot ice-cream. Then we went swimming again. Then we all had a nap. After we went to a restront and ate the most delicious Greek food. Then we all went to sleep. By Monique [typed, with errors as per her diary entry, by Mum]P.s It was hot in LA and lovely swimming in an ice cold Californian pool.

The flooded gorge

It was a beautiful day, so we decided to go for a ride. We took our bike and scooter, while Mum walked. We saw the water rushing down into the swiftly flowing river. We wanted to see what it looked like in the Gorge. There were heaps of people walking along the path. Many of them were taking photos. The river was very loud as it raced down and crashed against the rocks. Sometimes we got wet, even though the path is really high.






Then we went to the Sea Port. Julius and I rode in the skate bowl there were heaps of people there. It was a bit crazy. Mum made me sit with her because she was scared I would get hurt. Then Julius had a crash with a bike. He was ok but wanted to go. So we rode into the Mall and had our free Wendy's fundaes. Yummy! What a great day.