Geysers, Grizzlies, and Giddiup

Ended up skipping Teton national Park and went straight into Yellowstone through the west entrance in Montana. Happened to get awful winds with trees down and tourist’s hats and sun glasses strewn over the no go areas. The kids did their Junior ranger programs and did the young scientist program as well.

We have more than once been asked if we’ve seen the New Zealand Geysers….maybe one day!

Had a good second day, saw Old faithful for the second day and also Grand before heading up to see the ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ and the waterfalls that go with it.

We then headed out through the east entrance to Cody Wyoming. Charlotte was saying that we were going to see a bear next, we take it for granted that she was only three when we last saw one. So on the way out we rounded a corner and people were gathering and we got a look at a mother Grizzly and cub.

We then went around another couple of corners and came across another Grizzly, and then just to be silly we stopped up a bit more and spotted another down in the valley. Getting fed up with seeing Grizzly bears we got out of the park as quickly as possible without looking at any more animals!

Headed into Cody, named after William Cody aka Buffalo Bill. The home of rodeo according to their sign at least. So we went to the Nite Rodeo that’s on every summer night for the last 80 odd years. Just happened that it was blowing a gale and really cold. Still we had a great time with our puffer jackets, wollen hats and blankets. A bit of a change from the 30+ degrees we had a few days earlier. We found it hilarious that they still managed to fit advertising in between acts all on horseback!

Got snow as we drove at 8000ft towards Gillette (the best a man can get) Wyoming. Today we headed off to Devils tower and will head to Crazy Horse and Mount Rushmore tomorrow. Camping out in another Sam’s club tonight.