Friday in the park you'd think it was the last day of July

Well we were up and at it fairly early with waffles for breakfast and headed back to Yellowstone. It has been clear and bright for our whole trip - today is no exception but with some nice clouds to break up the blue. You know me, I like fog and clouds and rain too. Anyway, we went back into the park with our week pass and headed north this time. We were lucky today and saw a few more animals. We passed this buffalo laying in a wallow - flipping his tail and thoroughly enjoying the dirt bath. Then we went to the falls and after we came back to the road there was a bear on the opposite hill. Now this is not just any bear, the Ranger who showed up about the time the traffic jam got into full swing said that was Rosie. She is about 4 years old and she had a cub with her - her first and it is very light in color. She is a brown bear and comes out to eat here just about every day. She couldn't have cared less about all the people and was really working over on eating what might have been a huckleberry bush. We did not see the cub. But it was fun anyway.
The rivers running through Yellowstone all look like fun and good fishing especially Elk Park. You could easily
spend a week in the park and just be getting started in seeing it. It has over 2 million acres. The park closes when they get their first snow.
After leaving Yellowstone we went by the Grizzly and Wolf Center ($19.00). It had quite a bit of information on bears and some "stuffed" bears but the live animals were a bit disappointing. First they had little shade and it was hot and so were they. There were 4 wolves and 2 bears so these are the best pics we could get.
Left there and turned on "Weegie" - our name for our GPS unit - her full name is Sacajawea but we are all on a nickname basis now. And we headed to Idaho Springs, ID to Bill and Vickie's house. Pretty land heading down - saw our first $4.30+ gasoline. Sorry but last night I was just too whipped to write. Will put pics up later and tell you what we did today. I can't believe our time is running out!!!! But we will be back and soon.