Yellowstone

So as promised, I will write a short summary of our experiences at Yellowstone National Park. We had arrived slightly late on the first day and did not get the opportunity to see everything that we had wanted to on the first day we arrived there, so we decided to find a nice spot in a school parking lot to spend the night before returning the next morning. Despite the uniqueness of Yellowstone, as far as the geysers and hot springs and all of that goes, I was, in all honesty, slightly disappointed with Yellowstone. It was a beautiful place, don't get me wrong, I think it was just a little too busy with tourists (such as ourselves). It sort of seemed that all the cool spots that were "a must see" were packed with people taking photos. This is obviously not the fault of the park itself, but with places like Bryce and The Grand Canyon it was more spread out and we could kind of find our own spots to see nice scenery. I also noticed that all of the wildlife, despite the warnings telling people to stay well back from it, was very tame. We saw a buffalo grazing on some greenery with people standing about 5 meters away from it - the buffalo didn't seem to mind though (which is probably lucky for the unaware tourists). The natural hot springs, mudpots, fumaroles and geysers are absolutely fascinating though, and I feel blessed to have been able to witness them.
At this point we were desperate to shower, and were severely disappointed to find out that the campsite there did not offer showers, however we were very pleased to find that the hotels offered showers to the public. Showers that DID NOT HAVE A TIME LIMIT!!! Soooo nice.
From Yellowstone we dipped back out of Wyoming and continued to head towards the border (which we did not reach that day). The border crossing is a story on it's own so I'll leave that for the next entry.