Easter Weekend in Yellowstone

On Saturday morning, the sun was shining so bright. Around 10:00 we thought how much fun it would be to go to check on the cabin. We had not been since we had been home from California. We called Mom to see if she would like a ride to Island Park. We picked her up at 11:00. Rob was working in the yard picking up more pieces of the side walk in the back yard. They have the sprinklers in the yard now. Thanks Rob for working so hard. As we left the house, we stopped and got a 44 oz. mug. Ahh, good stuff.

It was so much fun seeing all of the snow that had been piled up. Just couldn't believe how much had fallen all winter. The people there had taken good care of the roads. But there were tunnels everywhere from the piled up snow. Just had to get pictures of the piles. Don't know if it will ever melt.

It was so much fun to have Mom here with us. She has on her new levi's that she bought with Pam and Stephanie in Salt Lake. Such cute pants Mom. They look so comfortable.

This picture is taken from the back of the deck. We took others, but it was too dark to see. I don't know if my flash works or not. It was great showing Mom the inside of our cabin. Everything was in place and very peaceful. Mike said that it was 34 degrees inside. Can't wait to be able to use it.

This is from the cabin looking down our driveway. After leaving the cabin, we drove to Subway and had a great sandwich. Such a beautiful day. Our first one. I could say it has been a long winter, but then that would sound funny because we have only been home a month. We tried to drive into Mom's cabin, but the road had a lot of snow and mud. It would have been better if we could have taken the truck. But the car would have been stuck.

We drove into Old Faithful. We saw so many buffalo along the way. Not as many calves as we thought there would be. Not a lot of snow in the park. Atleast the part that we drove through. The poor buffalo woud just walk slow down the road. We wish they could talk and they would tell us that they had a really hard winter and how many of there friends were lost by the wolves. So glad we are not buffalo. We took these pictures by the new information center. Then we hurried over to check Old Faithful. It was just going off. We could see it through the trees. Here if we had not been taking the pictures, we could have been in time to see one of the "seven wonders of the world." But Mom said she had seen it before, so guess it was OK.

The sidewalks were so dry. We sure did enjoy just walking around to see the information center. I think they opened it late last fall. Mike and I had been there to see a movie. So we took Mom in and caught the last of a movie.

Mom is standing directly infront of the big window. You stand inside with a direct view of Old Faithful, and not even have to go outside. You would think they planned it that way.

Mom took our pictures in front of the snow on the side of the information center. Don't know if it will be melted anytime soon. Thanks for taking our pictures, Mom.

We wanted our pictures taken infront of the visitors sign. We were going to get it in front of the Old Faithful sign, but hated to walk back that far. We can save that for another trip with less snow.

As we were leaving Old Faithful we noticed a few cars on the side of the road. They were watching this Grizzly Bear playing in the snow. We watched for about fifteen minutes. Mom could even see him rolling on his back with his paws up in the air. This is quite a sight. We have only seen one bear in all the times we have been there in the past few years.

This buffalo was poking his head over the snow drift to look at the cars. There were so many buffalo here. His hair was blowing in the breeze. Mom loved looking at the tuft of hair. This picture is for Mom. We had such a great day. We really did a lot of things in an afternoon. On the way home Mike asked if we would like to stop at Big Judds. Well, Mom had been there the night before with Pam and Rodney. They were celebrating Kim's birthday. It sounded so good, so we stopped. We bought the big hamburger, fries and a drink. We divided it into fourths. It was delicious. Don't think it is as good as "In and Out", but a close second. We had a great trip. We dropped Mom off, Mike borrowed a few war movies, and Mom and I found the cat. He looks so different with his lion hair-cut. I will have to get a picture and post it soon. Great trip to be with someone you love.