There are no Dancing Bears in Yellowstone

 For you entertainment today, The Dancing Bear.  We have used this in class to relieve the tension and to offer a little aerobic exercise.

We leave tomorrow for Old Faithful.  I took a walk on the Terrace just to say good-bye to this part of the Park.  I probably won't see it again until we leave in October.

There were some tourists on my walk.  How dare they?

I still managed to find a private spot to be alone with my thoughts.  Amazingly, I had no thoughts.  The good thing about being in nature this beautiful is that your problems become overshadowed by what you are seeing.

See.......

As I walked down from the Terrace, this sign caught my eye.

Here's a closer view of the picture at the bottom.

Off to the side, where you can't see her is the mother of the boy.  She's upset.

Little Jimmy is ruining a perfectly good pair of shoes and legs.

There are warnings everywhere for tourists, drunks, and well....tourists with dogs.  You shouldn't let Fluffy out of the car.

No more grooming bills if he falls through the crust into the lava.







There are some nice homes in Mammoth Hot Springs.  Rumor has it that the Park big shots have homes here.

The bison are not impressed.  They were camped all around this house.

Yard work must be interesting here.

Here's my excitement for the day...a baby bison.

Brittany?  Brian?  Biff?

I couldn't say for sure.

Isn't he/she adorable?  And to think it will grow up to be a Bob.

Here's some bison facts for you....

Bison can stand 6 feet at the shoulder and weigh over a ton.
They can run at 40 m.p.h. which is a lot faster than than I can run between dorms no matter how frightened I am.

If there tail is standing straight up they are either doing their business or really, really, mad and it would be a wise move to MOVE!

I leave you with this.

A large restroom?

A restroom for mammoths?

I love signs.