Yellowstone Park - Day 2

Today was a day about cliffs and waterfalls. We started the morning as we have the last few - eating breakfast, going swimming, and getting ready to go. As we headed back out to Yellowstone - I felt a little better about driving up the side of the mountain, but still not great. Heather and Isaac both were a bit tired so things were quieter in the car.

Today we decided to spend most of our day checking out the Yellowstone River path up to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Isaac enjoyed wading in the river and even stayed dry somehow - which for him was a first. Then we headed up to the canyon - only to run into the ONLY possible traffic jam possible in Yellowstone - CAUSED BY BUFFALO THAT WOULDN'T LEAVE THE ROAD!!! The cars were backed up for a while and we ended up waiting 30 minutes but we got to see a lot of wildlife on the wait.

The Grand Canyon was pretty amazing but continued to test my "love" of heights. One of the most amazing sites was the Lower Falls which we were able to see from a few angles. At one point we ended up walking down what is called "Uncle Tom's Trail" which was a small metal staircase overlooking the water fall - much to Heather's surprise I headed down with her and Isaac and even was able to look over at the drop off. We couldn't figure out why everyone walking up looked so tired and out of breathe until we made the trek up ourselves - WOW!!!! Even Heather, who is VERY in shape had to stop every once in a while catch her breathe and let her legs rest. Well worth the walk.

We then headed out to Artist Point to see what I think may have been the best view so far. You sit on a platform overlooking the Lower Waterfall again, but seeing it through the cannon. Very cool.

We did a bit of looking around Cannon Village, had some dinner and decided to start heading back to Cody (about 85 mile drive) and wouldn't you know it - ANOTHER BUFFALO TRAFFIC JAM - this one last 1 HOUR!!!!!! We ended up being in the car for 3 hours but had fun talking pretty much the entire time - even Isaac since Heather banned the DVD player for the entire day.

Tomorrow is our last day before making the journey home - we're going to head back up the mountain one more time and see the hot springs and that area and then get some rest back the hotel so we can be rested for the drive.