I cannot blog about Yellowstone without mentioning...

OLD FAITHFUL!!!

Of course. And the Old Faithful Inn. A little history for you. The Inn was finished and opened in 1904. It's architect, Robert Reamer, was only 29 years old when he was hired to design the hotel. It is the largest log cabin hotel in the world, and is still standing today. Reamer wanted the structure to look like it could have come out of the ground itself, and compliment the beautiful nature around it.

Here are some views of the inside of the hotel. You can see each individual log in it's own beauty...




The magnificent railings...


made out of beautiful tree limbs...


I am obsessed with this red door...


And the back of the door...


And even the intricate little mechanisms that make it what it is...


Now onto the clock that predicts the time at which the geiser will erupt. "Old Faithful" was rightly given its name because it erupts approximately every 90 minutes.


If you're a total nerd, you can watch it live, courtesy of the National Park Service:

www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htm

But if you don't have that much time on your hands, here is a still before...


And after!

TA-DA!