June 15, 2006

Hi all,
It’s Bradley again. We began today by packing up the camper and examining the car. Our collision yesterday seams to have knocked to shit (pardon my French) out of the deer since there is a fair amount of dung on the front of the car! We took it to the dealership and it is drivable (thank God). Then we headed to the Buffalo Bill Museum. I thought the section on Indians was pretty interesting. We started listening to a talk for about 5 minutes and realized it was just a bunch of panelists talking about writing about Buffalo Bill. It was fascinating! You can probably hear my sarcasm from there! We then drove to the Shoshone reservoir and took many pictures/movies. We came in on the east side of Yellowstone but sadly, the stones we saw were not very yellow. There was a long delay because of construction. We also had a little bit of sleet that made the weather seem even weirder. While driving, we saw 2 huge buffalo taking dirt baths about 5 feet off the road! We got to our cabin which isn’t much of a cabin (it strongly resembles a hotel room) but anything’s better than a camper (except a tent). We ate at a cafeteria type place which didn’t have the best food in the world but it was edible and we were all hungry after practically skipping lunch. We also went to the information center and had a talk with a very nice ranger type person. He walked us through everything! What to see, what not to see, what to look at a little bit, etc. It is going to be great instead of the 7 am to 7 pm tour that is $60 a person! We did here about Pat, so we will be keeping you Kelnhofers in our prayers. We will be sure to keep in touch.

P.S. this post is being posted a day late since our internet wasn’t working.