Our 2 night stay in Butte paid off more than just OTB because we got to go Yellowstone today. No weather problems, but there is still a lot of snow on the ground - not all the park roads are even open yet. Old Faithful erupted faithfully about 15 minutes after we arrived. It was cool, not Grand Canyon cool, but glad we got to see it. Even better than the geysers, was the wildlife. We saw buffalo, elk, fox, grizzly bear, wolf and big horn sheep. We didn't even get out of the car to see them. We saw a lot of buffalo. Two buffalo were walking down the road headed right for us - they split up and went right around our car - we could each have opened our windows and touched them. Larry eye's were about to bug out of his head! Since there wasn't much traffic, all the cars stopped in the middle of the road, everyone would get out of their cars and take pictures, and move on until the next spotting. We have seen so many elk in the last couple weeks, we don't even take pictures anymore. The bear was an unexpected surprise. They are just coming out of hibernation and hungry. The wolf was a surprise too since they are very reclusive. He was tracking something, but we couldn't see what it was. The fox was looking for a shallow place to cross a little stream without getting his feet too wet. After we were out of the park and going 60 mph down the highway, we saw about 6 big horn sheep at the side of the road. There was too much traffic to get pictures though. Another interesting day.........

Comments from Larry: Eldon said the wolf was probably tracking a cat - he's such a joker. I decided to get out of the car when we stopped to look at the bear; luckily, Eldon threw me back in the car and told me that bears eat cats - he's such a joker. I now know what a buffalo butt looks like - ask Cindy, she's got a picture.

Comments from Eldon: What a good day. I was amazed at the wildlife. I could have used Larry for bait a couple times - just joking. All in all, a better day than I expected. I thought Old Faithful would just be a "Griswold moment" but it was cool.

PS - the "butt" shot is when the buffalo was walking by my window, I thought I had the body, but I guess I was in too much shock to take the picture quick enough!