Part 2
It's Friday, and since not everybody gets to have Fridays off when their friends are in town, Pete recommended we head to Yellowstone National Park. Ryan had not been to Yellowstone since he was younger and I had never been at all, and since it was only about an hour away we figured it was the perfect opportunity. Pete gave us a Yellowstone fact book, which we of course read almost cover to cover during our drive. When we arrived at the park we immediately hit the Mammoth Hot Springs from the North Entrance. A bevy of white covered rock and trees showed us the beauty of what the molten hot lava was doing underneath the surface.
We were hoping to cover the entire park in 6.5 hours, so after marveling for 20 minutes we were back in the truck. Along our Yellowstone journey we saw bison in their herds and one random bison away from the heard. We called him Frank, because Frank would roll around in the dirt and then stare at the rest of the herd...we figured Frank was a very special bison. :) We saw Bull Elk, and we both thought we had bear-sightings as well. But those turned out to be false-a tree trunk and a rock. Our original plan was to have lunch around the Lake Village area, but after hearing that October 1st was the last day of the season and everything was closing at noon, we settled for Cheddar Pringles, a water and a candy bar instead. Making it around the Lake seemed to last forever, but before we knew it, we were at Old Faithful. An outer ring of benches was filled with people, which meant we were just in time. After waiting about 20 minutes, good ol' faithful showed its true colors. It was really neat to see something like that occurring in nature, no pyrotechnics or silly technology-plain old nature.
Our trip to Yellowstone ended through the West entrance and we headed back to Bozeman, where we met Pete at the McKenzie River Pizza Company for dinner. Bison pizza was on the menu and you know we had to try it-poor Frank.
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