We got to Yellowstone earlier than we'd reached pretty much any of our other destinations...around 1130, noonish. At the park entrance, the ranger guy informed us there was no cell service at all which sucked mostly because we didn't get to tell anyone that we'd be unreachable (I got 2 not so happy voicemails from my mom this morning not happy that I had not returned her calls). We got our campsite where we were also handed a flyer that said "warning. Many visitors have been gored by buffalo," and given a speech about how if we left anything odorous out of the car, we could attract bears. Great. Naturally I was pretty sure we were going to eaten but its fine. Chappy assured me that if people were eaten on a regular basis, they wouldn't put a campsite there. What a smart wife I have. We set up camp pretty quickly and it was off to see the park.
We'd driven no more than 5 minutes when we saw a shit ton of bison just chilling in a grassy area next to the road, so we stopped to take pictures. We then headed in the direction of Old Faithful, not knowing if we were going to get there at an opportune time to see the geyser go off or not. As luck would have it, we got there along with hoards of people, which we took to be a good sign. A few minutes after we got there, water started to spurt up and then a massive combination of steam and water just shot out of it for a minute or two. It was awesome!
Per request of Lauren Gelmetti, we next went to the Grand Prismatic Lake. At this point, it was kind of rainy out and so the large amounts of steam prevented us from getting the view that we wanted to of the multi-colored lake. Chappy was convinced we could climb this mountain type thing next to the lake to get a view from above and I just laughed at her and said hell no am I getting eaten by a bear.
when I was in yellowstone (with the same cross country trip I mentioned before) we were just entering the park and there were tons and tons of cars parked on the side of the road. My teacher, not wanting to disturb nature, didnt stop to see what all the commotion was about...but about 300 parked cars later we came across a massive herd of bison, and people being stupid were literally walking into the middle of the herd to get pictures. we didnt hear of any maulings, but I wouldnt have been surprised...
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