Yellowstone con't.--May 26,2010

Marvin does a lot of the car driving in his jeep, but Bob also drives our Saturn to give him a break so he drove yesterday and today. Today we took the northern loop. On the road up to where that loop begins we stopped and saw the Upper and Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. We went along side the river for a long time before we got to the fall and it was all gorgeous as was the falls. We also stopped at Artist Point and Inspiration Point on the way. Mt. Washburn had lots of snow at 8835' probably 4-5' right along side the road. We ate breakfast that morning at Yellowstone Lake Hotel it also was quite magnificent and the buffet was well worth it. There were two special areas that Dee and Marvin wanted us to see for sure. One was the upper and lower falls and the other was the Mammoth Hot Springs and they certainly were worth seeing. If you haven't ever seen the Hot Springs google them to see what it says about them. There are a lot of old buildings on the grounds and a nice small museum. The elk were grazing and lounging on the grounds like no one was there. We ate lunch at the Mammoth Hot Springs Grill and the boys had their ice cream. We went out the north entrance to see the large stone archway which shows the date of the dedication of Yellowstone and drove into the town of Gardiner.

We had seen lots of buffalo and elk throughout the park, but today was a big animal day. We saw two black bears up close but not on the road and a buffalo decided he wanted to walk down the middle of the road so everyone just followed along behind in their cars until he decided to finally go off to the side.