Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Yellowstone

So I finally talked Justin into taking Rylee and I to Yellowstone. I haven't been for about 7 years and I always liked it and I thought maybe Rylee would like it too. We went Saturday the 29th and the weather happened to be just right. Wasn't too hot it was just comfortable so that was nice.

I kept telling Rylee to look out her window for animals. We didn't see too many but we did see some elk and a few buffalo. The 1st buffalo we saw was rolling around on the ground making quite the dust storm. I tried to get video of him but being the camera pro that I am I didn't push the video button until it was too late and he was just laying there.

The 2nd buffalo we saw was really cool because it was at one of the hot pools and we just happened to be leaving and here is this buffalo in the parking lot walking down to the water. It was so funny too because here is this older couple totally oblivious to this huge buffalo coming there way and I think the park says to stay at least 15 ft away (not totally sure on that) and when they finally saw it they are within just a few feet from it and they couldn't figure out which way to go and I am just thinking that buffalo is going to charge them (how very exciting but scary at the same time!) but he just left them alone and continued to the water for a drink.


3rd buffalo we saw was walking on the side of the road -same side that we were driving on. He was close enough to touch and being that he was on passenger side and I was passenger it was up to me to get an awesome close up of this buffalo. Here is that awesome picture.
Told ya I was a camera pro! All my pictures are boring because I am too slow or too camera dumb to catch any excitement.

Anyway, we didn't go thru the whole park just a little bit but we got to see Old Faithful and didn't even have to wait very long. Rylee had fun too! She loved all the hot pools that had such pretty colors but she didn't like the smell. It was a good day!