Day 9

On day 9 we drove from Greybull WY, to Yellowstone National Park. Just outside of Greybull was the museum of flight and aerial firefighting. The museum was great. It was free and you could go inside and explore all of the planes. The museum was run by an old my who has been flying for over sixty years. He was very friendly and informative, but had a very strong opinion of the past. While he was talking about a plane that was of the type used to do the Berlin Airdrop, he commented that they should have continued pushing forward and wipe out the "damn Russians." He said they could have just used a few A-bombs and wiped them out. "We could have killed millions". Needless to say that was a little awkward, but all in all he was very nice. From there we pushed forward to Yellowstone. The drive was short and uneventful. When we got to the park, we thought we were almost there, but we still had to drive almost another full hour until we got to our campsite.

The campsite was very nice, but a bit of a ripoff. When I first got reservations I was happy b/c the campsite was only like $20 a night after tax, but I didn't realize all the hidden fees. The campsite didn't have electricity which was to be expected at that price, but what we didn't see coming was the pay showers. I have done enough camping that when I hear pay showers I think like 25 cents for a few min, which is reasonable and makes a good shower cost less than a dollar. Here they have a very different setup. The showers don't have a time limit, but they cost $3.25! Needless to say we didn't take showers. Not only were they expensive, but they were like a mile from our campsite. Instead we improvised and just poured water over our heads using a big water jug.

After we got to our campsite and set up our tents etc, we took a drive around the park. Within the park there are two big loops each with a number of points of interest. On this first day we decided to do the smaller of the two loops. On this loop we saw a bunch of animals like Bison and Elk, and some cool hot springs and rapids. (We will have pictures of these up soon). For dinner we had pasta with meat sauce and then cleaned up for a while because posted on our table, in our camp paperwork, and on the bathroom doors were warnings about attracting bears. We went' even allowed to have water in our tent.

We went to bed relatively early after watching an episode of Top Chef. The night was a lot colder than we had expected. It was as cold or colder than the first night in Ohio, and I had a lot of trouble sleeping.