We've spent multiple days here in West Yellowstone locked up in the RV because of continued downpours. It was very cold and rained pretty much continuously for 3 consecutive days...until today! Whew! We felt like a caged animal by this morning. We've thought back and seriously can never remember being in this much rain, for so many consecutive days, until our visit to Yellowstone last week.
We actually had a little bit of sunshine between the clouds today and felt blessed to just see that. Ok, enough complaining about the weather! We didn't get a very early start today but decided come what may, we were going back to Yellowstone today. We had not yet even gotten to see Old Faithful blow, and we've been here for 10 days. We finally got to see Old Faithful blow today and also pretty much drove the entire park today, doing both the lower and upper loops today.
We saw lot's of wildlife again. Tons of bison, lot's of elk, numerous birds, a few ducks and swans, a beaver and most importantly, we had an opportunity to see a momma bear with her '3' little cubs just pouncing around and playing near her. They were soooo sweet. We weren't close enough to get good pictures of the bears, but the little cubs were so cute tumbling on and over moma. All in all, we had a nice day at Yellowstone today and feel like we've pretty much covered it all, or at least what we wanted to see.
After so much cold and rainy weather we've elected to skip Glacier National Park and head southeast to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse and Custer State Park. We're not sure how long we'll be in the South Dakota area, but probably not too long as there really isn't really much more that we're interested in seeing other than the Mount Rushmore area.
On a very sad note, I received word this evening of the death of a childhood friend. We grew up together and he was a grade behind me in school. He lived his entire life in the same house, next door to me. Even though I had moved away from home by the age of 20, I still saw Phillip regularly through all these years, when I'd stop by the house to visit my parents, or during the time we moved into the house to help care for my mom in the early 2000's. He had been quite ill for a long time, but nothing that should have resulted in his surprising and untimely death at the young age of 52.
Most of the friends I grew up with in the neighborhood are all gone now as well, as well as my brother. It kind of makes my comments on the last blog update even more appropriate. It's just a really sad day today...the thought of touring anything seems a bit pointless right now.
Well, I hope you have a good evening. And don't forget how precious and short life really is. Ever since my cancer several years ago, the first thing I think every morning before crawling out of bed, is "Thank you heavenly Father for allowing me to have this day." Just seems to mean a bit more right now.
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