For President's Day, we decided to take a day trip to Yellowstone with two of our good friends Mike and Sarah Harrison. They told us about free national park day so why not take advantage?! We didn't realize that all the roads are closed in the winter so we couldn't drive through the park unless we rode on a snow coach which would take 5 hours one way! We decided not to do that.
Instead we found some fun things in the town to do. First we checked out the bear and wolf discovery. They told us that they do not interact with the bears or wolves so they are still "wild". Throughout the day they let out two bears at a time.
Inside the gift shop we did find a nice bear to interact with!
We ate lunch at Wild West Pizza. We had to hurry and finish eating so we wouldn't miss the wolf feedings!!
This part was actually pretty cool to see how they would eat in the wild. They let two wolves out with the pieces of meat already scattered around. There was a clear dominant wolf that wouldn't let the other wolf near the food.
Here you can see him growling at the other wolf. I would not want to be the one up against those teeth!
We walked around to some of the shops but sadly a lot of them were closed for the winter. I'm guessing this place is a lot busier in the summer!
On the way home we stopped in Archer, ID for what we heard is the best homemade rootbeer.
We approve!
Hopefully we can visit Yellowstone again before we move, so we can actually drive through the park. We have to take advantage of living near such a beautiful area, Dallas doesn't have much going for it as far as scenery goes :)
