Gentle Giants

Yesterday was our first day we got to sleep in…all the way till seven am. It was glorious. And then after a hearty breakfast, we began our journey up to Old Faithful. MAJ Neely was definitely more at ease this morning compared to last night, as most of the snow had melted by 10am. I am so glad we were able to get a hotel room; the campsite we were supposed to be at ended up getting eight inches that night! EIGHT!! The sun was shining and the landscape was vibrant with all of the greenery and wildlife. Sometime along the road, we saw a line of cars in front of us. I never thought I’d be stuck in a traffic jam in the middle of a national park. We were confused as to what was happening when we saw a huge pack of buffalo moseying down the middle of the road. There were around 40 all together, to include 7 red babies running along the inside of the pack. The first ten minutes kept us pretty entertained as we took tons of pictures and couldn’t believe how close we were getting to them. However, a good hour into this excursion was when it got quite annoying. It made me wonder if the buffalo conspired with one another on a way to get back at the humans for invading their territory.

            “Yeah, let’s just walk right down the middle of the highway. We haven’t done that since last Tuesday right?”

            “Yeah something like that. And besides, they put down this trail for us right?”

What made it even better was how the buffalo would take turns going in front of a car, stopping, and leaving a present before they continued their way down the road.

            Being so close to the “might mighty buffaroh”, as we called them, made me realize how we take advantage of the scenery America provides us. These creatures were huge and majestic. They seemed to be walking down the road, amongst all of the cars without a care in the world. They were huge too! And we read somewhere that they could run up to 30mph! This made me question the people who got out of their cars on the road to photograph the “gentle” giants up close…

I love this song. And I love how country music is so popular in this part of the states! I thought I was only going to get that in the south :]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oouFE51HcqM


-Cait G.