DAY 3:
After a nice dinner in West Yellowstone, (Mike had the elk tenderloin and I had the bison. So yummy.) we rested up and headed into the park the following morning. We took this photo with the "little camera" so I'll have to crop it together later. For now enjoy.
We were off to a great start on day one in Yellowstone. Within 10 minutes we spotted a bald eagle perched on a tree overlooking the river. 'Merica!
We decided to drive the lower loop on day one in order to make it to our dinner reservations at the Old Faithful Inn.
Bison! Delicious.
A lone female elk.
Mike likes rivers.
We took a short detour off the main drive and came across these beautiful falls: Firehole Falls
Back on the main drive we took a short hike around the geysers surrounding the Old Faithful Inn
We decided to stop and wait for Old Faithful to erupt... She was a little late and Mikey's ears got cold...
Look! They named one after Mike!
Finally, there she goes!! Not quite as impressive looking so far away on the camera but it was 100+ feet into the air.
Morning Glory pool
A bull elk just off the road from Old Faithful
A crowd had formed while we were taking this shot when we overheard a grown man ask the nearby ranger, "Is he here everyday?"
These people vote. (<--Mike's comment)
Some mule deer around the lake.
The Upper Falls of the Yellowstone Grand Canyon
We got a couple photos like this. Imagine you go to see the Statue of Liberty and ask an (American!) bystander to take your photo, and they manage to maneuver the camera in such a way to totally obscure the Statue of Liberty. As if you said to them, "Hey, you know that thing you came all this way to see? Make sure you don't get that in the shot."
The Lower Falls
This was attempt #2 with random photographer #2. First one had us exactly covering the falls, again.
Back to the historic Old Faithful Inn to celebrate our 2 year anniversary a few days early.
This was the table in which Bonnie and Clyde were finally captured.
DAY 4:
For day two in the park we drove around the upper loop around Mammoth Hot Springs and Tower Roosevelt.
Just outside of Mammoth we spotted this wolf just off the road eating red fox. This happened to be when the "big camera" died on us. I say died but what I really mean is the auto focus quit working and mike and I are too camera stupid to figure it out. So the remainder of photos are from the point and shoot.
No worries, we did get it "fixed" in a camera shop in Jackson Hole. It is in need of a good cleaning after our dusty travels.
No really, mike really likes rivers
We ended our last day in Yellowstone on horseback. This was actually a great excursion that Mike planned for us. (Actually, he planned the entire trip!) We were part of as all group and our guides took us out for a 2 hour back country tour of Yellowstone. Our tour then met up with a couple other tours and wagons for a chuck wagon style dinner at sunset. The food was great, music was flowing, and the campfire coffee was actually really nice.
After our tour, not far from the dinner site we saw a black bear! Apparently there was a momma bear and two cubs in the area but they stayed pretty hidden.
Gorgeous. By the way...this was taken at about 9:30-10pm. So weird how bright it was!
