:-) I guess I get to talk about the animals and any random thing that comes to mind about the trip. Well after we set up the tent and viewed a few things together in mammoth it was time to go back to the campsite and eat supper and go to bed. The first night we ate foil dinners that turned out fantastic, thank you Raul! After cleaning up our area we went straight to bed and boy were we tired...until, a very kind park ranger came along and woke us up at about 11:00 pm to tell us that we had left our camping grill and our water cooler out. There's some rule about putting EVERYTHING up before leaving or going to bed so that the bears won't be attracted to the campsite and so that they wouldn't have things to 'play' with, amazing how we missed reading the sign that was nailed right in the middle of the picnic table. So Raul got out of bed and proceeded to put the two things that we left on the table up while I turned over and went back to sleep.
I have to say that Yellowstone is the weirdest place climate wise, at night it will get down to 30 degrees and in the middle of the day it could be somewhere between 75 and 90 and this is the first of August, weird huh. Of course we weren't thinking it was going to be too bad so we didn't think too much about it when we went to sleep the first night. With the fact that both of us were really tired and it being cold made for one unpleasant night. Apparently when I sleep I like to take all the covers and give most of them to the floor without knowing it. I don't remember how many times Raul woke up in the middle of the night shivering from the cold because I had taken all of his covers away. After the umpteenth time he was getting kinda mad.
The days were a lot of fun. If you ever see a bunch of cars pulled over and people standing in a group you know to start looking for whatever animal they're taking pictures of. It doesn't even matter if its a deer, there maybe tones of deer all over the US but there is no deer like the Yellowstone deer and we have the pictures to prove it...lol. One incident was the funniest, we were coming back from mammoth for some reason when we saw a ton of people with their cameras out all excited about something. After we pulled over Raul and I started looking for what everyone else was staring at when suddenly I saw it. It was a BEAR! I was so excited that I jumped in my seat and immediately started to pushing Raul into the car door saying, "It's a bear, it's a bear!! Get out of the car, get out of the car, get out of the car!!" The poor boy didn't even have time to open the door before I was shoving him into it trying to get out. I have to say he was quite shocked that I wasn't more calm about the situation or that I could push so hard when I was determined to get out of the car and he was in the way of that. Oh and if you were wondering whey I didn't go out the other door that's because we managed to pile a whole heap of stuff in both the seat and the floorboard. It was either get out on the side Raul was on or knock all of that other stuff out of the car on my way to see the bear, I choose Raul's side. :-)

Another great moment was when we found where all the buffalo were staying at, we were so amazed by how the acted. I'll let the two videos speak for them selves....




Now for the scenery. The side of the park that we were staying on had just started growing new trees to replace the one the massive fire destroyed. On the other side of the park was some of the most beautiful scenery I think I have seen. This video just shows a glimpse of the kind of stuff we were seeing.





:-) oh and I can't leave out a video of what Raul and I do in the car when we're bored, if you catch us at the right moment on the roads in Utah you will see both of us doing this....enjoy :-)

1 Comment

1. Anonymous on August 17, 2009 at 6:06 PM

   Loved the videos. It sounds like you really had fun discovering Yellowstone. Raul, take a video of Janna doing her favorite seat dance.