Gardiner, Montana - Yellowstone Day 1

We arrived in Montana about 10:30. It was a beautiful sunny morning in Bozeman. We drove from Bozeman to Gardiner and arrived about 2:00. We stopped at a few fly shops along the way though so it took a little longer than it might have otherwise but we were not in hurry. Our room wasn't ready so we decided to go on it to the park. We were expecting that there would still be a lot of snow but there wasn't. We spent the afternoon at Mammoth Hot Springs. It has been about 9 years since we' ve been to Yellowstone. From my memory it seems that much of the Mammoth Hot Springs are no longer active. I don't know if it is a seasonal thing or they are just dying. We got some good photos though. Then we drove around and bit and say buffalo, elk, deer and antelope. Since we have all four of these in Colorado the sitings were not as dramatic as they were the first trip. But it was still fun. We rode along side a Buffalo for a small stretch of the road. John was afraid that he was going to turn and butt the car but he never did. I couldn't get a good picture of him because he was on John's side of the car.