The Big Loop with Joy and Trei

We went on the longest day of Yellowstone with Joy and Trei today to hit all the "highlights" . It is called the Big Loop and is the road inside the park that circles the whole park. We started at 8:15 and ended at 9 pm. But we saw a lot. We took every major turnout that we could and looked at all the wonders. It is a contrast between green pasture and a bubbling fuming mud pot which is actually boiling mud. At one of the stops it looked about as thick as clay paste and then bubbled up and exploded sending mud up about 12 feet in the air. I posted lots of pictures.

We saw the one thing, I wanted to see the whole trip which was bears. We saw two cubs and then later saw a big one. This was from the car as opposed to the people who run up real close to see. We decided there is some Darwinian theory going on at Yellowstone which is survival of the smartest. One guy cornered a bison in the parking lot while talking on his cell phone and videotaping it. It did not look happy and I was afraid we were going to see a bison mauling which is something I didn't have on my list of must sees.

We took pictures at the "Grand Canyon" of Yellowstone which was high up and Katie said as the people were leaning over the rail..."This is high enough that when you fall that you will have plenty of time to realize how stupid you were before you die".

We saw elk, coyote, bison, deer and bear yesterday. We also got spotty cell phone service enough to text Keith who had also seen a bear. COOL! will put more up later tonight. Was too tired last night to get this done. Hayden woke up puking today which happened on a good day since we had planned some down time. We hope it was a bad burger.