Day 7

We got up and did some errands around town and then went to the HF Bar ranch where Maya worked as a wrangler last summer. The ranch was beautiful and the people were welcoming. It was great to see where she spent her summer. We then went to Yellowstone National Park after climbing thousands of feet of altitude in Toasty (Maya's car). The road through the main part of the park is a circle, and the first day we drove the upper half. This hour and a half drive took us five hours because there was so much to see (and take pictures of) and consequently we stopped a lot. We saw grizzly bears from afar with the help of a nice couple's heavy-duty telescope, bison, and tons of geysers, which smell like rotten eggs. We finally got to our camp site around 9:30 and set up camp surprisingly fast, and started a fire in record time. Fifteen minutes after we got there we had a tent pitched and some corn on the cob cooking on the open fire, followed by delicious s'mores. We went to bed pretty early and woke up in the morning after Courtney had spent the night fending off Chrissie rolling onto her because her borrowed sleeping bag didn't zip and she was thus cold and wet.