Monday and Tuesday's agenda

I was so tired last night I put off writing the blog. But here were are tonight and I'm about as tired but if I don't write it down I'll forget some of the details.

On Monday, we planned to take off for the south entrance of Yellowstone but found out at breakfast it was closed because of snow. We had two options. Take a different route and miss some of the Tetons or delay the trip up to the south entrance. We decided to delay our leaving. Good luck had it that the south gate opened as we were leaving Jackson. We decided to take a loup closest to the river. Got to see a moose and then we took a boat ride across Lake Jenny. Once across, we hiked up part of a mountain and saw a waterfall and some animals. We tromped through the mud and snow and got snowed on going both up and down. But it was fun. Then we had a picnic lunch and headed towards Yellowstone.

We stopped a number of times for animals and looking at the views. We entered the southern part of the park about 4:00. The traffic was light as we drove through the park stopping for pictures of waterfalls, bald eagles, bison, wolf, moose and elk. Almost everything but a bear.

We got to our motel in West Yellowstone about 6:30 PM and were bushed. Went out for pizza at Wild West Pizza and then came back to the room and watched the Big Bang Theory. All crashed by 10:00. The hiking and fresh air did us in.

Tuesday was planned to explore from Madison to Old Faithful. We took our time stopping for picture opportunities. We walked around a number of basins and everybody got hungry and tired so we had lunch at the Old Faithful Inn. Russ and had the best blackened prime rib sandwich and the girls had patty melts. We won with the best meal! The rest of the afternoon was spent going through shops and walking around looking at more geysers. We were lucky enough to see the Grand Geysers.

Purchases included some coats (it was 30 degrees and windy) and tee shirts. We decided to have our picnic on our way back and stopped at a picnic area. We ate fast as a wild black bird was eyeing our sandwiches. Got back to the hotel about 8:30 PM and started downloading pictures to the computer.