A Happy Home is Filled with Love and Laughter: Yellowstone Day 3

Yellowstone Day 3

On our final day, we really wanted to see a bear. We did some research about a good area to see bears (though we know you have good opportunity everywhere.) We woke up around 5 and got things ready and headed into the park really early.

We drove for a long time! The kids really did awesome. After a couple of hours, we needed to get out to stretch and to get some fresh air.

We drove a bit further and ran into a guy with a scope. We got out to talk to him, but he wasn't very friendly. He said he was watching wolves, but didn't seem too interested in talking. Christie and the kids went on another walk before we decided to turn around, assuming we had run our course (and knowing we had 2-3 hours more driving to get back to the hotel.)

On our drive back, we ran into a large group of people using scopes and several of them were much friendlier! They were watching wolves at first and then found bears! The scope was hard to look through, but we tried to help the kids see as well.

In this picture, the bear is on the snow bank near the right hand side up at the highest point. You can see a brown speck. There were actually 2 bears up there.

We then hopped into our car to head back when not too far away we ran into a LOT of cars. We hopped out and saw this mama bear.

And these 2 baby bears playing! This was way cool because the kids were able to see these ones as they were just off the road.

We were the only crazy people with such young kids!

Not long after that, we saw fox out in a field. It was quite a ways out in the field so we couldn't tell if it was a fox or a coyote for a while. We tracked it for quite a while and eventually it came and went right across the road in front of us!

It was a super success! But we all needed to relax so we went back to the hotel for a swim.

We ended the night by searching all over for an open restaurant! Seriously, it was as much work as finding a bear :) The first night we had no problem, but there was a lot of stuff that wasn't open yet since it was just before the busy time. We walked into this restaurant and it looked closed. We turned a corner and found it was actually open. However, the servers acted like they didn't know what they were doing. I had a bison dog!

Kaylee insisted on going back into the park one more time, so her and I gave it a go while Christie and the other 2 went back to the hotel. We didn't see much other than some deer...