Very cold – a good day for a 4 hour scenic drive and a museum visit.
We were up earlier than usual (for vacation, anyway) and leaving here by 7:00, headed for the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum in Cody, Wyoming, via the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway. And it was BEAUTIFUL. We took many pictures, but they just hardly did justice to the scenery. Everyone really enjoyed the museum until about 2:30, and then we headed back the way we came; but with no stops we made it home in 3.5 hours. Supper was leftovers, and then we spent some time down at the river in our backyard…I was kind of jumpy because the last 2 evenings there was a grizzly here about this time, but he never showed up. We were probably too noisy. We also enjoyed meeting our vacation neighbors, a homeschooling family with six children from Pennsylvania. Then we all came in for Bibletime and beds.
We were intrigued by the free-range stock that was wandering all over – no fences, so all the cattle was branded.
Mule deer.
Beautiful scenery.
On to the museum – pictures didn’t turn out very well because of the dim lighting, but Kate took a bunch anyway so I’ll post some.
This was in the firearms museum – most notable because this record-setting polar bear was shot by a woman!
On the way home, we saw this plateau from the road up high, and it had cows grazing on it. A very beautiful scene, but the picture didn’t turn out. We were curious as to how they got up there; the backside of the plateau is a hill rather than a cliff, and the cows just walk right up.
The youngest son of the Brooks family joined right in with our kids’ games down at the creek – they all seemed to have a good time, it was a beautiful evening, and we did NOT see any bears, thankfully.
That’s it.
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