Yellowstone National Park
OK, we have read all the warnings and seen all the signs about the wild animals, apparently not many people leave Yellowstone disappointed about the wildlife so we have high hopes, Nick is really hanging out for a bear!
We had only been in the park for about 2minutes when I spied a moose through the trees, unfortunately we had a stream of traffic behind us and couldn't pull off the road so no pic of that dude! A few miles up the road though we came across our first bison - man are they big!
Yellowstone is divided into 2 loops and we opted to do the upper loop today and the lower loop tomorrow. We stopped for lunch and were looing for a picnic spot when we saw all these elk, apparently they are dangerous, although with the closeness of the onlookers I wouldn't have thought so.
Yellowstone is a geothermal area very much like Rotorua in New Zealand. A lot of what we saw today we have seen several times before. This pic made us wonder what the pink and white terraces really did used to look like though.
Tonight we went along to the local rodeo and watched the cowboys do their thing. We were completely lost about what was happening and who was winning although the crowd certainly knew when to holler and cheer.
