This morning we awoke in Cody, WY to a cloudy sky. As we headed out of town we encountered our first rain of our trip. It was just a light rain that did not last long. One funny thing happened as we left town. Kelsey was trying to take a picture of the rodeo area where we were last night when a sprinkler came through the window and hit her in the head. We covered 139 miles as we traveled to and spent our first afternoon in Yellowstone National Park.
The scenery in Yellowstone is spectacular. Many times we looked at the beauty before us and said that there is absolutely no way a picture could capture what we were seeing. We spent the afternoon traveling through the northern part of the park. We had lunch looking out over Yellowstone Lake (the largest lake at this elevation), viewed the Mud Volcano (very interesting thermal activity with sulfur gas included. Lindsey wanted to know why nature could not have chosen a better scent like vanilla?!?), hiked down to see the upper and lower canyon falls (this included going down and then back up 328 steps) and a final stop at the Tower Falls. Along the way we did see some more bison and a black bear.
We are spending the night in a cabin at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel & Cabins. Unlike our cottage in the Badlands, this cabin was built back in 1938. It has all of the basics: two queen beds and a private bathroom. There is no air conditioning, but the weather here is Yellowstone is cooler. The car thermometer stated that we had an enjoyable day in the mid to high 70’s.
This evening after dinner we walked up to the hotel lobby to play some cards before heading to bed. We came out of the hotel at 10:00 p.m. to find a bison having an evening snack on the front yard! It was neat to see, but nobody wanted to take a flash photo and disturb it.
And the winning quote of the day was spoken by Kelsey as we were all getting a little tired in the afternoon. She said, “We have not even reached the West coast and I am already sick of you!” This has not been her attitude throughout the trip and we were able to turn things around with a short nap in the car and some ice cream. I enjoyed the Huckleberry ice cream.
Hammond Adventures 
so glad Old Faithful performed for L’s b’day. Trust you have reached CA and are not “sick” of each other. We just love all the pictures. Looks like all are pretty happy to us.