June has been insanely busy for me. The month started out with my youngest son graduating from high school. I gave him a choice to go anywhere in the United States to celebrate and he opted to head to Yellowstone National Park. He likes the outdoors and would rather spend time hiking around in nature as opposed to waiting in line at an overcrowded amusement park. So as soon as graduation was over, we jumped in the car and made the 5 hour drive to our nation's first national park.
If you have not been to Yellowstone National Park, it is huge. Plan on spending some time in your car as you visit the various places in the park. We entered from West Yellowstone and had to get to Grant's Village on the southeast corner of the park. We tried to take the lower loop going counter-clockwise but got stuck in an insane wildlife traffic-jam. There was a bison walking in the road and nobody could go around it. After going a quarter of a mile in a half-hour, we turned around and headed in a clockwise direction around the lower loop. Fortunately we made our 6pm dinner reservations in Grant's Village. I knew I was in trouble when my son pulled out his camera to take a picture of me at the same time I pulled out my Android phone to check e-mail.
We did a lot of hiking and seeing wonderful sites over the next 3 days and my son always had his camera ready. Did he ever bother to take pictures of the beautiful scenery around us? Nope, he waited until I had a quiet and uneventful moment to check e-mail. We came back from vacation and the only pictures my son took were of me on my phone. Fortunately my wife had her camera on the trip and she actually paid attention to the scenery and wildlife.
I love my son and he makes me laugh as he managed to get some pretty funny pictures. He also reminded me that sometimes it is just fine to let go of the office and relax on a vacation.
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