Day 21 - Yellowstone - continued

What a day! We were up early as we wanted to make the grand loop around Yellowstone. We did it all. Left the hotel around 7:30 this morning and got back around 8:30 tonight. Whew!! We're pooped and tomorrow is a long day on the road - 8-9 hours to Mt. Rushmore.

We saw lots of wildlife, mainly elk and buffalo, and a wolf. One place there were two herds of buffalo and it looked like hundreds of buffalo in each herd. In another place a lot of cars were parked on the road but we couldn't tell what they were looking at ... but think it was a bear far out in the meadow. Of course, Old Faithful was part of the day. And a beautiful waterfall!! Although I think we both were more excited about the wildlife.

We got up to the snowline in the highest part of the park. Some 9,000 or 10,000 feet. That's a far cry from the elevation of Charlottesville!

We ate breakfast at a little hole in the wall restaurant ... it was really good then tonight ate at a restaurant near mammoth springs. I had bison burgers. Getting adventureous eh? Elk while at the Grand Canyon.

I took lots of pictures of elk today. We were pretty close to them, until one of them went up behind another and nipped him. They both sprinted ... and so did everyone watching!!! :)

Tomorrow it's on to Mt. Rushmore. Hopefully we'll get to see a July 4 fireworks display there Saturday.