Yellowstone Day 2

The plan for today was to see Old Faithful erupt and go row a boat across yellowstone lake.

We started the day by arriving early and heading straight to Old Faithful, even though we had arrived early we had nearly a 2 hour wait till it erupted. So we headed for a hot chocolate and a muffin. As we walked back to Old Faithful we noticed a lot of people had already started waiting for the eruption.

And then we heard someone mention what time it was, we had made a total rookie mistake and we were using the wrong time zone! So rather than the 2 hour wait we thought we had it was a rather short 30 mins. This also explains why yesterday we missed the eruption by such a large window!

After Old Faithful we visited a few other basins and shot a few pics of the wildlife before heading back to West Yellowstone. While walking around trying to find a restaurant to eat we found some flyers for a rodeo which we will hopefully attend tomorrow. I will report back if we manage to get tickets!

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Elko

Today has been spent in Elko. We are using it as a stop over to break up the long drive between Yosemite and Yellowstone.

Elko seems to be lacking in tourist attractions but the one not to miss is the worlds biggest stuffed polar bear. So we headed down to commercial casino to have our picture taken. The bear weighs in at over 2000lbs and stands 10 feet 4 inches.

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After visiting the giant polar bear we noticed there was a little museum so we thought we would pop in. I have never seen such a large amount of dead animals in one area! They even had a trophy room which was a true spectacle.

Here we see Sian pointing at a giant Moose trophy

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And some rather fetching Elephants feet stools

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I am currently trying to stitch together a panorama shot of one of the side trophy rooms I will upload if it works