double whammy!

can you believe it?! two posts in one day.  that means I don't have to post for, what, a year? well, good 'ole Thayner and I said goodbye to the civilized world and ventured into the magical world of Yellowstone!

 one of these things is impressive, the other is not so much.  guess which one.

 I was surprisingly wary of the buffalo.  maybe because they are HUGE and fast.  or maybe because there are signs all over the park saying that people are gored by buffalo all the time...who knows.

 the "grand canyon of yellowstone" was probably my favorite.  it was so huge and spacious, it made me nervous.

 i love nature.  it is neat.

 I think we spent $3.89 on food the entire trip.  Here we are with some gourmet top ramen.  The only other food we subsisted on was a tupperware bowl full of cookies I baked the day before.  

 we camped right under this sign.  we still have all of our original limbs, never fear.

 I don't have much to say about our living conditions except that it is probably one of our better wedding gifts.  it was completely bear-proof, but not mouse-proof.  I kept waking up to Thayner slapping the sides of the tent cause our little mouse friend was playing ring-around-the-rosie all night.

 nice rack! (we had an over-abundance of "nice rack" and "grand teton" jokes this trip)  

 there was also an over-abundance of actual racks in Jackson for their annual rack-sale.  I feel like they could spice it up and have a "Ms. Jackson Rack" competition.  make it a little more enjoyable for the men-folk.

 animals galore.  here is our elk friend,

 our grizzly friend,

 our tree-climbing black friend,

 our stampeding friends,

 our traffic-jam friends,

 our baby friend,

 our wolf friend,

 our howling friend,

our sibling friends, 

 our mama friend,

 and our old man friend who I made Thayne stay behind at all times while watching this bear, so that the old man would be eaten instead of Thayne.  Is that wrong?

 this friend was as big as our car.

coyotes aren't my favorite animal, but I shot this picture and I believe that it belongs in national geographic 

 maybe our coolest moment was watching this grizzly bear chase this herd of elk at full speed for 30 seconds, then lose his breath and stalk them for 10 minutes and give up and walk away. 

 we felt so grateful to be able to see and experience all of this nature.  Jackson, the Tetons, and Yellowstone were all more than we could've ever hoped for!

so, the whole trip, I would always tell Thayne to stop the car because I "spotted" an animal...usually a bear.  100% of the time, it was a sitting buffalo, a tree, or a rock.  The moose above was the only legitimate animal I spotted all by myself and at first I thought it was a beaver in a tree eating it. wow.