A Day in Yellowstone

On Saturday we decided to go up to Yellowstone. It was going to rain but I thought it would clear up by the afternoon so we went anyway. It has been a while since we had been around the northern route, so that's where we went.
We had hoped to see something besides bison. We were not disappointed, we got to see 2 bears. The first was just of the side of the road and created a nice back up of traffic. It stayed there eating for a long time with people taking pictures.
The second bear was along a side road between Mammoth and Norris. It didn't stay in view long enough to get a picture but it was really neat to see.


Bear, it sure want scared of all the people taking its picture.


We also saw about 10 elk, and 30 bison.
The only place we got our and walked around was the upper terraces at Mammoth. It was a long walk and we ended up having to climb a bunch of stairs at the end which did everyone in. Aleeya wanted to be carried but no way was I going to carry her up all those stairs so I bribed her by promising her a piece of gum when we got back top the car. It's amazing what that girl will do for gum.
When we left the park we stopped in West Yellowstone to let the kids walk around and look in some stores. We bought the 3 youngest a t shirt and Jessie got sweats.
 It was a great day even with the rain.

A few of the 10 elk we saw



Kids by Orange cone at Mammoth