Day 2 Yellowstone

We left Butte fairly early after a wonderful breakfast in the WalMart parking lot and headed for Yellowstone via the north entrance by Gardiner MT. 

The Park and the entire days travel was filled with wonderful geographical and geological sites.  We stopped at the Mammoth hot springs which were quite spectacular to move around.  At first Dee Dee couldn't make the climb up the boardwalk but one very giant burp later and she was good to go.(we had just finished lunch in the parking lot.)  Dee Dee had a fast trigger finger today as she took almost 600  pictures (boy am I glad for digital and not the old film days).

Amongst the targets for her pictures were geysers, hot springs, bison (a half hour road backup for these bad boys) who happen to like to go out into the road so everyone has to stop for them then gawk at them, and a bear.

We enjoyed the travel through different kinds of rock formations on the canyon walls, burned out sections of the park for the 1988 fire some of which have recovered rather well and others that have virtually no tree growth in them.

We arrived in Cody Wyoming at about 7 and spent the next hour looking for a room to stay in.  Just our luck to show up in Cody on the weekend of the National Cowboy Day which is apparently a real big thing in Cody. Dee Dee thought she was going to have to wrestle another man for the last room in the hotel.  We got to pay a premium for the room because of this prestigous event.

The day ended at Granny's family resturant where Mr. social himself chatted up the waitress about Onalaska and the family she knew that had moved there.  One on them just happened to be my starting post player two years ago.  Small world. Also, some of the biggest and best pancakes we've ever had.