TOURING WEST YELLOSTONE

Sept. 24

Today we have decided to go to town and do some window shopping-and check out a bear and wolf preserve here. We had planned to go back in the park(yellowstone) and do some fishing-but they regulate all of the fishing-and the majority of it is only fly fishing. We will be going thru another section of the park tomorrow on our way to Cody-so town it is!
We found a great little cafe-breakfast is great here-and Denise, there are cute birdhouses hung everywhere!
There are lots of great stores in town-a lot of them too touristy-but some are in original buildings and have been family owned businesses forever. We found Eagles-one of the original ones-did a little shopping,and were entertained by the owners too. I fell in love with a leather jacket with fringe all over-but left it behind for someone else to discover-I am sure I am getting points for that one! I did find some great socks covered with moose-a good alternative!
We headed over to the preserve-hoping to see some bears and wolves. the preserve has rescued animals from the wild that were either injured or orphaned-they have made a good place for these animals that otherwise would not survive. It is sad they will never be able to return to the wild-but at least they have a good home-and food on a regular basis.
The wolves are hanging out in their area and happy to just sit and look at us looking at them-they are huge! the bears are on the other side of the property-they(just two we could find) could not have cared less that anyone was there-one was just sleeping up on some rocks-the other happily chewing on something-we did not want to know what that something was! We were a little disapointed in the preserve, but they are doing a good job there.
Time to get back to camp-it will be a travel day tomorrow-and Mike is grilling us a steak! We have enjoyed our visit to Yellowstone-and the town of West Yellowstone-
Forgot to mention the best thing we did today-the museum! The exhibits were all about the railroads that came to yellowstone in the early 1900's. We were lucky,also-they were having a very special exhibit of railroad china-actually a lot of china and menus and really neat things that were given to the children on the trains.
there was china from the 5 railroads that serviced Yellowstone-don't ask for all of the names-please! I wanted a little creamer that was on display-it was so cute with three little bears on it. Anyway-really a great museum to check out if you all get to West Yellowstone one day! There is a lot of history in this little town-and everyone is very friendly and happy to share with visitors.