We had a blast when we went to Yellowstone. We had to close up any food items when not in use, and put all deoderant, etc in the car to keep scents from attracting bears. So I kept somewhat a record from our trip.
We played the liscence plate game, and found 40 of the states, except: Alaska, Indiana, Hawaii, Massachuchetts, Mississippi, Vermont, Conneticut, Delaware, RhodeIsland and West Virginia. We also saw Canadian plates: Alberta, Quebec, British Columbia, and Manitoba. (If any o
f these places are not in Canada, let me live in ignorance, not embarrasement.)
We saw ravens and osprey, even a bald eagle nest with a mom, dad, and babies! We saw bison (see previous post), a grizzly bear, 3 black bears, a bunch of elk, bighorn sheep and mule deer. We also were able to feed chipmunks. There were 3 chipmunks at firehole falls that would come up to you and let you feed them. One even climbed onto Emily's back. I of course stayed behind the camera. (Getting bit by a rodent is not my idea of fun!) Luckily for us, Sean has no fear of animals, so the kids have some opportunities like that.
Jaron feeding the chipmunk a carrot!
Nate feeding the chipmunk! Speaking of wildlife, we were camping next to 4-5 guys who were on a "male bonding" trip. You could tell this was an annual tradition for most of them. They were real burly men driving a pickup. Lots of Carharts, overalls, flannels, and the big guy had a shirt that said "gentle giant" which he wore all the days. Even their names fit the trip Doug, Tim, Mike, Dave, etc.
On the other side of camp was this family from France. (I was embarassed by the Utah plate, then relieved to see the rental sticker in the window.) They were oblivious to the fact that there were other people in the campground. They would go to their car about 10 times in a 30 minute interval, eachtime they would lock the car door their lights would come on for about 1 minute, and shined right into our campsite. As you can imagine, Doug and his possie did not like that one bit and after about the 7th time they went up there told them to "please knock it off with the lights already!" The french woman was confused and insited that it was not her (even though she was in her car.) As the possie was returning to camp they were only about 15 feet away from her car when she locked the door again. You know me, it was so funny I about wet my pants.
Of course, my greatest pleasure came from Seans displeasure of them walking smack dab in the middle of our campsite. I figure it is a culture thing. They would seriously look into our tents. One night we were eating dinner, and the teenagers walked between our tent and table, looked at our food and said "Bon Appite" to us! I guess you can't take things too serious when you are camping. (How could you when you go 3 days without a shower and even the 3 year old says "Mom, your feet are pitch black.")
I know you all were dying to see photos of my dirty feet, but believe it or not I did not take any, so there!
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