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... of our trip to Yellowstone! I didn't write anythign in the last post, just the pictures, so I thought I'd explain a little of what we did.

On a Tuesday evening we took off to my parent's cabin in Island Park, 1&1/2 hours away. We packed bread, peanut butter, jelly, soup, bananas, cheese sticks, cereal, milk & a few extras. We stayed the night in my parent's cabin Tuesday night, woke up early in the morning, packed everything up, turned off all the power to the cabin, and headed for Yellowstone National Park. The Park opens at 9AM so we were there at about 9:30. There was a little line of cars waiting to enter the park, but not too bad. When we got to the booth to pay, they gave us several flyers and a map of the park. One of the flyers explained that we should not get within 500 feet of a buffalo, or else we'll get charged at. It showed a cartoon picture of a man getting "bucked" (i guess is the word) by a buffalo! It said that it happens to many, so be cautious, blah blah blah. I don't have any cool stories of seeing anyone getting bucked, but it was kind of a funny flyer to get. Better safe than sorry.

So once you enter the Park, it takes about an hour to get to the first site. The speed limit is 45, so I think that's why it takes awhile. But about 10 minutes into our drive, a bunch of cars were slowing down and had stopped. When you see that, you know there are animals around that everyone's checkin out. So we stopped too, and found a bunch of deer/elk/who knows what-- right by the road. There were lots- like 8-9. So we got pics, that you'll see below. So that was pretty cool. Then another 5-10 minutes later, we were stopped again by a couple of bison on either side of the road- about 10-15 feet away from the road!! It was awesome. We took video of that, as you'll see below.

We were pretty pumped that right off the bat we saw lots of deer and bison right there. Come to find out, there's hundreds of bison in the park that like to hang out in the roads and nearby the roads. By the end of the day, we were a little sick of em. haha- not really, they're always cool to spot.

We also saw some crows- probably the biggest ones i've ever seen! And they aren't afraid of people either, they wouldn't fly or run away when we came near. I was more afraid of them than they were of us i think. Hmmm.

Anyway, we hit up basically all the cool, "must see" sites in the Park. We went to Old Faithful, the Little Grand Canyon(which was one of our faves), the Lower & Upper Falls,(another fave) Mammoth Hot Springs, Mudpots, the Mud Volcanos, and a few other pretty sites. And we did this all in ONE DAY! We were surprised! By the end of the day, Pax had taken 2 naps, and I had taken 0 ! What's his deal? It was a very fun adventure that everyone should try and do if they're in the area!!