 Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldeck White, I'm Jessica. And today's video is going to be travel the parks with us. So today we are gonna be traveling to Yellowstone and we are bringing you guys along with us. Now it is summer, which means we are very relaxed. We spent the morning and the pool hints why I look like this and you're not used to seeing that. Sorry, this is real life you guys. And we come inside after the pool and we have lunch separately. If you need to know more about that, you can see more about that up here about homeschooling and only. So Emily normally watches a video during lunch. So she's gonna be eating lunch and watching a Yellowstone video that is within the curriculum. And then we will dive straight in to traveling to Yellowstone. So I just wanted to let you guys know in case you haven't seen it, there's a look inside traveling the parks. There are two different checklists. There's one that has five days and it gives you the specifics to do each day for five days. And then the other one, which is the one that we are using this summer is just the checklist that lists everything that needs to be done for each national park. And the reason we are using that one is we just have all of our traveling the park stuff in a basket. And when we get ready to do school time, whether that is in the morning and the afternoon, whether it's on a Monday or a Sunday, we just pull that basket out, put it on the table and we slowly work through whatever the next park is. Again, today is gonna be Yellowstone. So I've written that at the top. And then we just check off what we do. This way, whether a park takes us one day or 10 days, there's no guilt, there's no pressure. We're just slowly chipping it away. And when we've completed all of the check marks, we're done and we can move on to another park. It makes it perfect for this summer because we can be as relaxed as we want. We can go as fast or as slow as we want. So just made it very enjoyable thus far. We've already done Yosemite and now we're jumping into Yellowstone, which is Emily's favorite national park. So now we are gonna go ahead and get started with our day at Yellowstone. We'll do the perks and numbers later. I'll go ahead and start reading and you can draw Yellowstone, all right? Okay. All right, so Yellowstone is weird, like really, really weird. It's filled with geysers that spew streams of hissing water into the air. These large craters look like blowholes of humongous whales and they're everywhere. Also, watch out for rainbow colored hot springs that could boil a potato. Not bizarre enough. Be careful of cracks in the ground that belch steam. Standing next to one of these steam vents is like burping in, is like bumping into a burping dragon. Sure, you'll also find pretty waterfalls and fields of blooming wildflowers. The park is so big that many people drive through to see every inch of beautiful landscape. But this isn't your grandma's park unless your grandma likes blasts of molten air and giant puddles of bubbling mudsuit. Now, what, from what you know because you already know a little bit about Yellowstone, what is Yellowstone most popular for? A giant volcano? No, it is a giant volcano, but what is the thing that everybody goes to Yellowstone for? What is the thing you wanna go to Yellowstone to see? To see Old Faithful. Which is the largest, what? It's like the largest and the most popular, do you know what the word is that we just talked about where it comes up? What do we call that? No, it's steam, but what do we call the thing that it makes? Eight here. Number 58, so let's find number 58. So 58 and it's a yellow. Okay, so now try to show me where that would be on your map. Yep, it would be right there. Put your dot, put your dot for Yellowstone. All right, now map it, how are you gonna get there? Okay, go ahead. I'm gonna get from under. You're gonna go in the ocean? That would be silly. Across the world. Okay, not the world, the United States. Okay. All right, so you need to know the weather, right? Yep. So let's just look up Yellowstone National Park weather. Okay, what is the weather like today? So today it's cloudy. Okay. And what's the temperature? Temperature on here is 57. 57 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay, and then if we click Celsius, how many degrees Celsius is it? 14. 14, so we're at 14. Very good. Okay, so your parks and numbers, the average covered square miles is up here. So let's write that, which is for 3000. And 60. Very good. Okay, how many, what's the number of grizzly bears? The number of grizzly bears? Do I have to put the dash? Yeah, because that means 674 to 839. So it's somewhere in between those numbers. Okay. All right, so now we have to figure out our traveling expenses, right? Yep. Okay, so let's go into the map. And we're going to search Yellowstone National Park. Okay. And we're gonna get directions from there, from our house to there. We're gonna make sure we don't show our address. Okay, so how many miles is it from our house to Yellowstone? One day. Nope, how many miles? Not how much time? 2,272. Okay, so let's write that for miles to the park. Okay. Now, how many days are we gonna need to travel? How many days is it gonna take us to do? One day and 11 hours. Okay, so are we gonna drive straight there, do you think? Do you think you can drive for that many hours straight? No. So how much time do you think you're gonna need minimum? We're probably gonna need, how many sleeps do you think you're gonna need to pull over and sleep for? Yeah, so we could probably just say two days. You can probably just pull over in the middle to sleep for a few hours, seven to eight hours. So probably at least two days to get there. Two days and 11 hours. No, just two days. Okay. You don't have to write days, it's already part of the thing down there. Got it. You just need it to write two. Okay, so two days. All right, now we have to figure out the cost to get to the park, right? Yep. And that's where this comes in handy. So first you have to decide what vehicle you're gonna rent to drive. Are you gonna rent a compact car? Which is a small one. Which is a very small car. A mid-sized car, a minivan, an SUV like what mommy drives, or an RV. Well, these two are out, cause that's 100 and then that's 200. Okay. So I'm gonna go with the mid-sized car. Okay, you think you can fit all your stuff in a mid-sized car? Yeah, we could all fit. Okay, so it's how many dollars a day? 40 dollars. Okay, so 40 dollars a day and how many days do you need it? It's going to be 80 dollars. Okay, so 80 dollars is just, so put 80 cause that's just to rent the car. Dad, I have to go to the bathroom. Michael's squirmed in the back seat. We'll be at our camp, I know, we'll be at our campground in just half an hour, said dad. We're in Yellowstone National Park now. He's just nervous, said Michael's sister. He thinks the bear's gonna eat him. She growled at Michael and made her fingers look like claws. Stop it, Emily, said mom. Nobody is getting eaten by anything. Michael was very excited about the trip that Emily was right. He was nervous. He had just read a book about grizzly bears. He knew how big they could get. He also knew that a hungry grizzly bear would eat just about anything, maybe even a boy. I am kind of scared of bears, admitted Michael. Don't worry, dad told him. We'll show you how to count a bear's toes and never get close enough to be scared. Here's our campsite. Let's set up the tent. Then we can go for a walk and I'll show you what I mean, dad said. Michael was awfully worried about grizzly bear toes but tried not to show it. Let's hurry, said Emily. I wanna see some animals. Once the tent was up, the whole family went for a hike and Emily started to complain before they even left the campground. I haven't seen any animals yet. Maybe there aren't any here. There are definitely animals here, said dad. We're going to learn about them from their scat. Like a raccoon. Scat, said Michael. What's scat? Scat is the word hikers and trackers used for animal poop, mom said. The big, flat thing here is bison poop. People call these buffalo chips. Ew, that is not like any potato chip. Animal profile for Yellowstone is the bison. Bisons are a symbolic animal of the Great Plains and often mistakenly called buffaloes. They are formidable beasts and the heaviest land animals in the North America. Bison stand some five to six and a half foot tall at the shoulder and can tip the scales at over a ton. Their scientific name is, are you ready for it? It's super fancy. Bison, bison. They are a bison. That's their scientific name, bison, bison. That's weird. Their predators are wolves, mountain lions, and bears. And then their prey are none because they are herbivores and they only feed on grasses and sedges. That's just weird, that's our name. Their scientific name is bison, bison. I know. They are a bison. I know. Okay, so finish writing that and then what, bison, bison for their scientific name. And then you can illustrate your bison and its habitat and you can illustrate its predator or you can draw some grass since they don't have any.