Yellowstone!

Happy Birthday to Cody! This year for Cody's Bday, Teague, me, and our best friends Tiff, Jesse and Cody decided to run away to Yellowstone. My roommate Tiff has a family cabin in Island park that we got to crash for the weekend. The cabin was only maybe 100 yards from a huge lake! We spent most of the time down there laying out on the floating docks, and playing in the water. I am a fish, I LOVE to be in the water. I was in the water the majority of the first day, until.... Jesse got out of the water to find blood sucking leaches on his back. I do NOT do leaches. So, after that, I was content on just sunbathing and hanging out on the beach. Leaches, bleh!

The cabin

Playing in the woods

the lake

The wild man eating frog the boys found! EW!

The next day we spent in the little, old town of Yellowstone. We went through all the little souvenir shops, and ate at a local BBQ joint that was delicious! After shopping, we went to the bear and wolf habitat center. It was kind of like a small zoo, with with bears and wolves. There were two different wolf packs, and the lady there taught us about the packing order. Alpha, the leader, Beta, second in command, and Omega, the remaining members of the pack. What I thought was cool was in both packs, the Alpha leader was a girl! As it should be :]

The bear exhibit was so fun. They had a bear their that was 30 years old, and 1100 pounds! She was HUGE! My favorite part of the whole park was when they did the bears food demonstration. The trainers came out and hid food all over the park. In trees, under huge piles of logs, in a trash can... and then they released the bears and they came out and found it all. It was crazy to see how creative they were trying to retrieve the food from where they were hiding. And in a matter of minutes, they had found it ALL. Just goes to show you how easily a bear could get into your campsite food if you aren't careful about putting it all away! We got this great video of one of the bears getting a food container out of one of the trees.

We all brought our dogs with us, Cody had Butters, We had Bella and Alice, and the Baty's had Dillan. So the last day we spent hiking some trails with the dogs, and playing down in the water with them. They were so much fun to have with us! That night, we came back to the cabin and were pretty cold. So Jesse turned on the fireplace. Little did we know, that fireplace had been the home to a bat! It came flying out of the chimney into the cabin, and started flying around everywhere! Running into walls, diving into all of us, it was so scary! So Tiff and I barricaded ourselves into the bedroom, while the boys tried to catch the little beast. We video taped it, and it was one of the funnies things I've ever seen. Cody finally caught it in a mixing bowl, and threw him outside. But it made for a super funny ending to our fun vacation!