Monday, July 11, 2011

Our Jaunt to South Dakota: Part 1: Yellowstone

We just returned from our annual summer trip to South Dakota and my parents' little "lakehouse" by Iron Creek Lake outside of Spearfish. The day after The Table's first anniversary (woot! woot!) we loaded up our trusty red Subaru with a roof rack (thanks, Cody!) and headed south and east. Our plan was to take our time getting to South Dakota, taking a few back roads and going through Yellowstone. I loved our short 5 hour drive through Yellowstone. We had to be escorted to our car after lunch because it was surrounded by elk. Then we saw a grizzly bear, tons of bison, and a wolf right along the road. Aaron and I were amazed by the animals...I think Montana was a bit young to fully appreciate it, although she did like the museum with the "fake" fox!


Herd of people...Yellowstone has an abundance. You see them everywhere.


This wolf was wandering in the road and then we drove right by him.
It was a little scary to be so close!


Grizzly Bear minding his own business while hundreds of people stopped to watch him.
Can anyone say traffic jam??


Montana and Mr. Fox


Family picture taken by an Asian teenager who was stoked to take our photo!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

jealous! we didn't see any bears or elk. where in the park did you spot them?

though our BEST animal siting was actually in South Dakota - Custer State Park had a heard of HUNDREDS of bison!!!