The Land Before Time

Day 11:
Today we visited one of the mandatory-must-not-miss-or-you-will-totally-regret-it attractions: Yellowstone Nat'l Park. I heard it is as big as Connecticut, and it is nearly impossible to breeze through it all within a couple of hours! Everything is beautiful and the landscape is amazing! There are a bunch of wild critters such as elk, buffalo, deer, and bears. But there are more buffalo than anything else in the park. I'm astonished of how there is absolutely no gating...anywhere! Everyone in New York would probably sue for tripping over a rock or something stupid like that. All of the buffalo were very close to the car, and we got so scared they might gore holes in the car! There were a bunch of great geysers that bubbled up to 200 degrees and once burnt the surrounding ecosystem in 1978, and has been around almost a million years ago. Almost a dozen people have been scalded to death and others severely burned, luckily we weren't. Later we visited one of the biggest waterfalls you could ever see. We took a load of family pictures all of which I come out squinting my eyes from the sun...I could really use sunglasses! Soon after that we were completely wiped out, so we drove to Chico, Montana to an old resort my parents visited almost 15 years ago and it was just perfect! The swimming pool was entirely powered from mineral hot springs from the mountains, and not that disgusting chlorine most pools use. We plan to go and finish all the cool stuff on the west side of Yellowstone, then head south to Jackson Hole, then to Salt Lake City,UT within a couple of days. ¡Hasta manana!