From Thermopolis to Yellowstone today finally arriving at our destination. We actually get to stay in the same place until Sunday morning. We have never stayed in one place for so long and will enjoy spreading out and not worrying about packing up every night. We took a road up through Cody and at one point it said, "Pavement ends" and they weren't kidding. The WDOT road crew was working on the road and had it down to dirt. The scenery was spectacular and there were many exclamations of how wonderful it was from the kids. We then started driving through Yellowstone and couldn't believe it could get better but it did.
We decided to see who could spot the first wildlife big game animal and Katie says she "so won" because she saw a "BIG" bird and swears there was a "big animal" on the cliff. She had binoculars and the rest of us couldn't see it. Not that I don't believe her, but I won because I saw a bison. HAH! We could always tell when there was a wild game sighting for the traffic jam of people that were getting out of their cars and running closer. Forgetting that these are wild animals!
We stopped at Old Faithful figuring that we would probably want to see it more than once and got there 15 minutes before it went off again. It was spectacular although Tom had expectations that it would be bigger, so he was disappointed. We then drove on to our campsite and it is great. Our site is large and across from the cabin that Joy and Trei are going to sleep in when they meet us here.
It looks like spring here with all the wild flowers and I will try and post some tomorrow when we go on our hike. Well, time for bed. We have a big hike planned tomorrow of about 6 miles.
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