Travel day again today. We left Pocatello, Idaho nice and early, at 8:45 a.m., shortly after Lucas had a final visit with the picnic table.
Today's destination is Yellowstone National Park. We pass through Montana on the way there.
Rob was quite thrilled that Lucas slept for 2.5 hours and we made it from Pocatello all the way to West Yellowstone in that same time.
While the day started off great, there was road construction in Yellowstone that really delayed us, and really delayed lunch, leaving all three of us hungry and less than happy, aka hangry. Sorry for the bad photo, I was in the back seat with Lucas trying to keep him happy by slowly feeding him Gerber puffs stars.
When we got to Mammoth Hot Springs, we found out that the first-come-first-served campground was already full. It filled up while we were slowly driving through construction. They only had half the sites open anyway, since it's April. Also, this campground is sandwiched between the road into and out of Yellowstone. It's definitely not the nicest park campground I've seen.
So we stopped for lunch, finally. No outdoor picnic today, as there was a buffalo by the picnic area. We witnessed a really stupid couple who went to close to this buffalo, with the man even making grunting noises, and of course the buffalo charged at them. Lucky for them it only gave a half attempt and they ran away in time. The buffalo went back to eating grass right away. It's amazing how stupid some people are!
Since the only open campground in Yellowstone was full, we drove out the north gate into the town of Gardiner to look for camping. The roads all through this town are currently under construction.
We got the last campsite at the only open campground in town. Phew!
It's a pretty nice one too, right on the Yellowstone River. Really, it's a much nicer campsite than the ones at Mammoth in the park, so we really lucked out. Again, Lucas enjoyed time under our tree, in his exersaucer.
We did have to be careful with our feet though, due to an excessive amount of deer poop!
The rest of our day was pretty mellow, as my stomach was feeling off. We just hopped in the Jeep around the time of Lucas' usual afternoon nap and did a bit of driving in the park.
We saw the hot spring terraces, created by the hot water coming out of the earth's surface around here.
And if you look carefully at this photo, you will see a large herd of Buffalo on this plain. We were wondering if any of these buffalo are some of the ones they moved down here from Elk Island Park in Alberta?
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