~~ Nitya's Blog ~~

It was 6:45 am.- early morning when me and my family woke up. It was a big day. We were giopng to Wyoming. Best of all, we were going there in a train. I was waiting for this day. We finished up the packing and rushed to the car. My dad drove and I almost slept in the car. Then my mom woke me up when we reached the train station. Then we started to unload the bags, when my dad went to park with my little sister. Me and my mom watched the 3 bags. After a little while, my dad and my sister joined us at the station. My dad went looking for the platform and the tickets. We waited for the train at the platform After a while, it came. It was huge, but beautiful. We went upstairs in the train and got to sit in the upstairs front seats. After a little time, the train started to move. When we looked out, it was so so beautiful. We saw trees, lakes, pond, people, water springs and all kind of nature stuff. It was incredible. The train moved faster and faster. It was much better than a car. A few minutes later, I looked through the side window and I saw a giant canyon. It had lots of rock, even loose rocks. There were all kinds of rocks - reds and yellows too. I slept at like 2am. We all listened to out Ipod, played little games and had lot of fun in the train. After five hours, it was night time. We reached Wyoming the next morning. Me and my family took out the luggages and headed towards a car which was taking us to a car rental shop.

After that, we got an SUV. Then my dad started driving after all of us got packing and got inside. Then we headed towards McDonalds. There we ate breakfast and it tasted good. Then we drove to Yellowstone, a place in the forest. Thats where our cabin was. When we reached there, all of us went to a nature show, where we sat on a bench and watched a volcano looking like hill which had very very hot water in it. Steam came out like a factory chimney. Water came out like a fountain. The boiling water looked like it was warm, but I was very very wrong. After the show, we ate dinner and then went back to our cabin and got some sleep. The next morning, another eruption came. We took pictures and then went to a ranch and we saw horses. There me and my little sister got to ride one of their horses. My horse's name was RJ. My sister got to ride a pony called Orio. When we were done riding the horses, we gave the horses some treats. The wranglers gave us two real horse shoes. Then my dad kept the horse shoe safe in the luggage. When we were driving back, a herd of bison came and surrounded us. None of the cars moved and we were all kind of scared. A few minutes later, they all walked past us and disappeared into the woods.

After that, we went to another cabin. It was a little bigger thatn the other one. The bed felt like it had eight springs. There we ate a sandwich. A few minutes later, we went on a boat ride in the lake which was 16 miles long and 5 miles wide. At the other end, we saw a very big ship wreck, and it was real. It was the second time I ever saw one. I also saw one in Florida. The ship had many webs. It was also half sunk. Then the boat turned around and we started to move back to the docks. When we were coming back, the waves started to get rougher and the boat started to get bumpier. Finally, we finished the ride. The last thing we needed to do is thank the driver. Then we went to a close by shop and rented two fishing rods and drove to a safe place in the lake. We stood on the shore and tried fishing. But none of us got fish. But before that, I got a frog and my family got all weeds. After fishing, we saw otters playing. Then we went to a place called Mamoth Hot Springs, where we stayed in another cabin. While we were driving, we saw anElk - a big deer with long horns. We were sure that the cabin next to it was not ours. Finally we found ours and unloaded the bags. We changed into our night dress and went to sleep.

The next morning, we went out and saw something amazing - 40 elks were outside and eating grass. I needed to go to the bathroom, but I was so scared and so my dad took me. I could not go to the girls batchroom, beccause there was a male elk right next to it. That morning, we went on a wild life tour. A pretty yellow bus took us on a ride, and we saw one moose, six anteloopes, three deer and one fisherman. Afte that, we went to another ranch and we all rode a horse, except my mom. A wrangler held my sister on a horse. But no one helped me and I was on my own. A wrangler and my dad were on two differnt horses. Can you beleive that we rode our horses thruogh the forest for an hour?  It was lot of fun. I wish I could buy that horse. But I knew I could not. At night, we had to go. We waited for the train for three hours. The next night, we got back to our house. It was a wonderful trip.