Yellowstone and the day's happenings

Two lessons learned today.

1. Pay attention to the map

2. Never leave the tent without your camera

Lesson one was learned early in the day as we left Cody. We missed the road sign, missed the turn, missed that we passed through the wrong town, finally figured out we were going the wrong way. So it took us one hour to go 15 miles in the right direction. You gotta laugh about these things... but our error took us on a hwy we would not have taken which proved to be very scenic and we were rewarded with a view that ranks very high in our best views list. So, take that as a life lesson. Sometimes a path different than your original one will yield you a better result or experience. Make plans, but let life happen.

So , we did finally make it to Yellowstone. We entered on the North East entrance and drove the bottom half of the upper circle. The views are undescribable, at least by me. The park is simply tremendous. We saw Buffalo, a black bear, a grizzly bear, moose, Elk, a fox and a pine squirrel. The buffalo are everywhere and often walk in the road. We came upon one walking down the road that had surprised a lady who had just gotten out of her car to take pictures of the herd. She didn't know what to do when she saw the buffalo coming at her,but he just walked on by.

The grizzly bear drew a lot of attention as well. He was about 1/4 mile away from our car but some people decide to walk up the hill to get pictures closer. Hello... it's a grizzly bear...

I stayed in the car and was happy to film from afar. Hopefully that's the closest grizzly bear encounter we have.

The funniest thing was at the General Store at Tower Falls. There was a spider in the eaves of the building. It wasn't a particularly large spider by SC standards, but people were exclaming of it's size. One lady was afraid to walk by it! HA. I had to laugh. We don't have bears in SC, but we have some wicked big ugly nasty bugs.

We finished up the day at Yellowstone and pitched our tent in our new KOA home for the next two days. The campground here is nice with internet access, clean bathrooms, hot showers and other amenities. Norm and I did some stuff, had dinner and were about to retire for the evening. Norm kept hearing a voice over the hill like an announcer and he kept saying something's going on over there, some kind of event.

We decided to check it out. Would you believe that right over the hill from the KOA in West Yellowstone is a rodeo every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. We pulled in, bought a ticket and had a rowdy good time watching barrel racers, bull riders and other fun rodeo stuff! We laughed and sang and cheered on the rodeo contestants. Knee slappin' fun.

Which brings me to lesson number 2. Sorry Sis, no rodeo pictures! But I had fun! Ride 'em Cowboy.

LoVe and Peace,

Tammy and Norm