Wyoming

By Thomas

 This summer my family on my mother’s side went out Wyoming.  I was the only person in my whole family that did not want to go.  It did not make it better when my parents decided to take a train that takes two days to get there ‘’ just for a better experience.’’   It was a pretty cool train because between the five of us we had two rooms each with three beds and a shower, fridge, bathroom, and sink. The first night on the train was boring, because my brothers where annoying me in our room.  The next day was a whole different story because we made a stop in Chicago. I loved Chicago because the water looked so tropical because of the color blue it was and felt like I was on the boardwalk at the beach. After Chicago we got back on the train and the next day we made a stop in Denver. Although I did not like Denver as much as Chicago it was still a pretty nice city.

When we were ready to leave, we went to the car rentals and took the car on our way for a 10 hour drive.  During the car ride I felt like I was going to, and my parents not paying attention to my oldest and youngest brother annoying me by screaming in my ear or punching me.  So then I tried to fall asleep so it would go faster but because of my brothers that did not happen.  When we got to Wyoming, we thought the drive was over until our parents told us there were still another five and a half hours. That was when I flipped out a screamed and punched my brother.  Then we got to Yellowstone national park witch was our destination.  We came up to the gate which we thought meant we were there, but then we told the gatekeeper where we were going she said we still had another two hours.  That  went by fast because the sun was setting and the scenery was beautiful.  Once we got there we put our room key in the slot and it did not work, so they went back to the lodge office and got the right key.  That night I could not fall asleep, and I could not go on Instagram or Facebook because we had no service, so I just lied in bed and eventually fell asleep at about 2:00 am.

The next morning we went to the grand canyon of Yellowstone was really cool and my mom would freak out when we went to close to the edge, because we were 500 feet up.  After that we decided to go the Old Faithful and had lunch in that dining hall. After two more days after Yellowstone we went to the main part of the trip.  Red Rock Ranch.  It was really cool there because there was a heated pool, a hot tub, tennis court, a pool table, ping pong, and a basketball court.  After we arrived we god ready to have dinner and met all the other families that where there for the week.  It was the weirdest thing because they all had a kid in their family that played lacrosse.  The next day I learned how to ride a horse for the first time, we would ride through the whole week.  Every Tuesday we would go on an all-day ride and bring lunch.  The first time we went we collected rocks off of a cliff. When we first came down to the cliff there was a stream under it so they said we would have to get wet.  We thought they we joking until they jumped  in with all of there clothes on.  That was when we jumped in and really felt like cowboys.  We could even go under water to pick the minerals off the side of the cliff.  The one after that it was just our family.  And we didn’t really do that much.  On the last day we had a barbeque and camp fires.  The next day we packed up and left the ranch to go to our family’s ranch.  Red Barn Ranch.  Red barn ranch was my favorite part of the trip because we shopped in Jackson Hole Wyoming and that is what we did every day for the rest of the trip.  On the last day we packed up and said our goodbyes to the animals on the ranch and got in our car and started are long trek back to the car rentals.