Day 20 - Jellystone, Rather Yellowstone (hey Booboo)

We were up early this morning for the ride to Yellowstone. It took about an hour through the Park to get to the hotel but the ride was beautiful!!! Didn't see any buffalo as I'm hoping too, but the first thing we saw was an eagle in a nest, then some elk, beautiful river with rapids, nearby mountains with SNOW on it -- I'm sitting here in the hotel looking at a not too distant snow-capped mountain (a FAR cry from the 100+ in AZ earlier in the week), small waterfalls.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to see other wildlife as well as geysers and yes, of course, Old Faithful.

There are grizzly's in the park, buffalo, elk, moose, eagles, to name just a few. We've seen quite a few birds we'd never seen before. Linda and her husband are bird watchers so she has enjoyed the birdlife.

We stopped at a little town in Idaho here for lunch. It was on the Snake River and there were angler's in the river fly fishing for trout. Such a beautiful view.

I failed to mention as much about Salt Lake City as I wanted last night ... it was late and I was tired and was hurrying to get in bed.

The building we were in at dinner was the Joseph Smith building and we dined on the 10th floor overlooking Temple Square. As we were finishing dinner they opened the roof and you could see the beautiful sky. Salt Lake City's downtown is really beautiful.

Bartly's friend Chandra is a structural engineer and gave us a brief tour of the Capitol building, telling us how just recently they have placed material under the entire building to help earthquake proof it.

After dinner we were outside looking at buildings and saw a peragrine (sp?) falcon family. Two of the baby's have not flown yet. A gentleman in the courtyard was viewing them and told us about them.

Okay -- back to Yellowstone.

The scenery is beautiful. God's creation is abundant in everything -- the hills, the rivers, the steam rising from the ground, the wildlife. I stand in awe.