Bison Phlub

Next we went to Old Faithful where the Photo Phlub is well-documented below. After watching the geyser blast, we had dinner at the Old Faithful Inn nearby. There was a few minute wait so Joe decided to take his PC from the “Live Blog” back to the RV. He asked for volunteers to join him—Dan and Josh decided to come along. As we were heading into the parking lot, a woman in front of us said, “Look at that!” And amazingly a 2000 lb bison was walking right through the parking lot and in fact was moseying right behind our rig not more than 50 feet in front of us! Joe whipped down all the stuff, ripped out the camera and OUT OF BATTERY! No picture again. We watched the bison casually pass down a small road on the right side of the lot, went into the rig and then remembered again that the Treo might be able to get some kind of picture. So we carefully ventured out and went down the path the bison had just gone down and a car had followed it so the picture was tough to get. The bison was actually sandwiched between that car and another that had come the other way, so we were thinking it was time to leave. We turned around and a second bison just as big was following us down this little roadway not more than 20 yards from us! Yikes! If we keep on going we have a trapped bison down there and no way to get back to the restaurant until the second bison passes (or is there a stream of them we have no idea about). Luckily there was a dirt path that went off into the woods (we didn’t know where) and we just started running! One of the boys said, “Daddy I’m scared” and Joe said “I am too!”. When we got comfortably away from the second bison we waited for him to pass by our path and took this one single picture with the Treo that you can’t even see the bison in. While we don’t have the pictures in digital form, the image of that 2000 pound prehistoric looking buffalo following us down the path will be burned into Josh, Dan and Joe’s brains for some time.