Summer vaction in the SNOW

Yes, that's right snow. And not an Alabama snow but a full fledged, in mountains snow. We left SD early to head to Yellowstone. On the way we stopped at Devil's Tower, it is an 895 feet tall volcano shaft. We can give you the geological explanation but then we would have to kill you. The Indian story is much more interesting and you should google it. After leaving there we drove up into the Big Horn Mountains. It was while climbing the 8300 feet mountain passes that we encounter a foot of falling snow to add to the foot that fell the night before. It was very foggy and at some points it felt like a white out. During our summit the temperature outside dropped to 27 ( this was a 15 degree drop)We stopped to have a snowball fight in our flip flops and the kids where blissfully unaware of my white knuckle grip in the steering wheel. All in all after accomplishing this Mary and I believe we can do anything.

We made it to the East Yellowstone entrance by about 7pm. Just in time for amazing wildlife. While driving to the Old Faithful Inn on the Grand Loop we stopped to watch an Elk in the birthing process. She was surrounded by 10 other Elk. As we watched a gray wolf stepped out of the woods and began to approach the Elk. Most of the others crossed in front of us and while two other females stayed to protect the mama to be. We have since learned that seeing a gray wolf is very rare and we were very lucky.

We arrived at the Old Faithful Inn and it was lovely. Our room overlooked the geyser. We explored the 105 year old building and one of the bellmen told us a ghost story. For full details of the story you need to ask Geer or Grace.

.....more to follow