Yellowstone: Part 2 - Dragons and Buffalo

After lunch on Thursday we got back in the car and headed to our next destination.

We stopped by a place that had something to do with Dragons, (not so good at remember the names!) and it was pretty cool, and poor Triffen thought that there was a real dragon in the cave! It sounded like a dragon because the waves and/or the pressure echoed in the cave, sounding like a dragon and to top it off there was steam coming from the cave too!

Here is the "Dragon Cave"

So after we walked around, we got back in the car and kept moving! Still no sight of any wildlife (besides the deer than ran across the road in Cody!) And so we trucked on looking and hoping to see Buffalo! And as I so quickly learned when there is a line of cars going 15 mph it isn’t because road construction or anything like that it is because there is some sort of wildlife (possibly right next to the road, or even waaaayyy off the road that it is so tiny you’re not even sure it is anything!)  The first Buffalo we saw on the trip was HUGE so huge that I thought it was a statue at first!! Haha, and some people couldn’t get out of their car fast enough to take a picture! I was fine and dandy to stay in my van!

This is the first Buffalo we saw, and it was close to the road - and so big (in my mind I really thought it was a Hippo at first! haha!) This picture doesn't do any justice to how big it seemed in real life! You can't see his head in this one, and he is kind of hidden in the tree's.

Here is a very blurry picture of him! But it was exciting because he was the first bufallo we saw on our trip!





As we kept driving our eyes were pealed to see more Buffalo, and we sure did - way far away! So we let the kiddos stop to get a good look at them!

You can see them way out there, but like I said, these where the first ones we had seen!

As we came upon the next traffic jam or people looking at wildlife, we got to see these two guys!

It was pretty funny, because they were just eating along side the road and then all the sudden they came on to the highway, weaved through a couple of cars and then went back off to the side of the road! My moms sarcastic comment was " they weaved through those cars like someone had paid them to do it!" That is some of my Grandpa Asay's humor coming out in her!

Just taking their dear sweet time!

Then to our surprise as we drove a little farther we came upon a whole herd of Buffalo, probably somewhere in the range of 500 +

 This guy here was sleeping, and we heard him snort! It sounded more like a lion growl, but the kids thought it was pretty funny! Triffen was convinced there was a lion out there!

 We couldn't keep Triffen and Lauren in their seat! Good thing we had the van and plenty of room (and good thing traffic only let us go 15 miles per hour!)