Hey y'all! We're back! Well, we've been back in town since Sunday but this is the first time I've gotten a chance to type up a post. I don't even know where to start though!
We left August 6th to go on our belated honeymoon to Yellowstone and let me tell you what, it was amazing! I can't even begin to tell you everything that happened or all that we did so, since I'm me, I'll mostly just talk about the animals because we were lucky enough to see tons! We started off going to the Badlands in South Dakota. We got there on Saturday afternoon and it was soooo cool to see them since of course I'd never even been out there. Right away we saw three antelopes including this cute lil guy sunning himself.
Just after that we drove to a prairie dog town and a little off in the distance there was one lone buffalo!! I just knew at that time that I was gonna see all the animals I wanted on the trip.
We spent some time looking around there and continued on our way which included going to Mt. Rushmore and through the Black Hills. There were so many motorcycles because Sturgis was about to start, it was crazy. And speaking of crazy, we saw Crazyhorse too! Though that was from afar, but the big giant face didn't make it seem so far away. We also went to Devil's Tower which was incredible; you never expect to see something like that in the middle of nowhere! This is mostly gonna be an animal picture blog, but perhaps this weekend I'll upload all 200-something pictures of our trip to shutterfly so you can see the other cool pictures including Devil's Tower, waterfalls, hotsprings, lakes and mountains so keep your eyes peeled for those!
After South Dakota I think our first real stop again was in the Beartooth Mountains. Can you say beautiful?! I love, love, loved it there! We even made snowballs! But the best thing about the Beartooth Mountains for sure was this:
A lady that let us look through her binoculars told us we were lucky to see them here because it is very rare since there aren't too many in that area.
That same night we set up our tent at some place super close to a campground that is only open to RVs because of all the Grizzly Bear activity it has, well that and the fact that the Grizzly's that frequent there like to eat and harrass people for no reason. Luckily, there were no bears at any of our campgrounds! After we set up our tent we decided to go into Yellowstone hoping we'd get to see some wildlife at dusk. Like ten miles in the roads were lined with cars, which you learn real quick that if the road is lined with cars you get out and look! So out we went and there was a big ol Grizzly across the river!!!!! It was our lucky day! There was a hill everybody was on to get a better look so we went up on the hill as well. We made some cool friends with this couple that knew tons about the wildlife of Yellowstone and they let us look through their $1,200 scope. It was so amazing!! You could see the Grizzly going to town on an elk carcass. Soon enough wolf 06 of the Lamar Valley pack joined the Grizzly in eating so she could feed the pups. We found out that 06 is the best female hunter of any species in Yellowstone and better than many males as well. And she does most of her hunting alone. So it was really cool to get to see her! Eventually 06 left and three more wolves of the pack came instead. Two black wolves and a gray one. Unfortunately we were too busy seeing them up close through the scope to remember to take pictures. But we got one far away picture of the bear..... if only Matt hadn't lost/gotten his camera stolen in Lincoln Park or we would have had way better pictures!
The rest of our Yellowstone trip included one more black wolf, LOTS of huge bison (including a dead one, how sad! Not even eaten, it's just like it tipped over and died), elk, pikas, a fox, mule deer, and I can't remember what else now because I'm getting sleepy. But there were a lot of animals! And we saw a lot of hotsprings and geysers as well and those were pretty neat.
Then we went to the Tetons where we found this guy
There was another moose with that one but a little more hidden further away and then we drove a couple more miles away and found another moose! Then the next day in Glacier we saw yet another moose! I love moose. They're gigantic.
Last, but definitely, definitely not least we went to Glacier National Park. It is so beautiful there. It might have been my favorite place on the whole trip though that's hard to say because Yellowstone had so much wildlife! However, Glacier has Goatlick Overlook. And Goatlick Overlook did not let me down! Well, the path that you were supposed to stay on kinda did, because there were no goats. BUT we went under this bridge around the corner and it was goat haven! So maybe not quite a haven, but there were like seven goats. A family of goats was just chilling laying under the bridge and two others were actually out and about taking in the mineral lick. Probably the highlight of my trip :)
There was so much more to our trip too, but I feel like I'm probably boring people to death by now, so next time you see me perhaps I can tell ya everything! I will leave you with a few more pictures and will put the rest on Shutterfly soon.
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Oh look, a Tracie in water! Imagine that! If you're thinking I look fat, lay off, I'm pregnant. Though the fat you're seeing that picture is probably 100% camping and roadtrip junk food. But there, I said it, I'm pregnant! We are both super duper excited. Unfortunately I don't have much to update any of y'all on right now because I only just had my first appointment today and I'm only 10 1/2 weeks. But hopefully I'll have more fun things to say after my second appointment at the end of September. Seems like an eternity to wait.
That's it for now, folks!
Just after that we drove to a prairie dog town and a little off in the distance there was one lone buffalo!! I just knew at that time that I was gonna see all the animals I wanted on the trip.
:)
Oh look, a Tracie in water! Imagine that! If you're thinking I look fat, lay off, I'm pregnant. Though the fat you're seeing that picture is probably 100% camping and roadtrip junk food. But there, I said it, I'm pregnant! We are both super duper excited. Unfortunately I don't have much to update any of y'all on right now because I only just had my first appointment today and I'm only 10 1/2 weeks. But hopefully I'll have more fun things to say after my second appointment at the end of September. Seems like an eternity to wait.
