Well, driving across Idaho is pretty boring. And we didn't know what the top of potato plants look like so we're not sure if we even got to see any. We saw a big green field with lots of odd, short plants so that might have been it.
Severus was much calmer on the second day, I think he finally gave up fighting the valium we got him from the vet. He also greatly prefers to be in someone's lap rather than in the carrier so whoever isn't driving has the job of holding the cat. Makes it hard to read but that's ok.
Even though he was better in the car, he still wouldn't settle down in the hotel. And this particular hotel didn't allow pets, so we were sure someone was going to hear his howling and come investigate. He did sleep a bit but only until the valium wore off, so my mom took him out to the truck at 6 am. But when we checked out there was nothing about us sneaking in a cat on the room notes. There was also nothing about trying to drive the truck through a thing that was too low for it and scraping the roof of the truck...and disrupting people eating in the restaurant above. In our defense, it was just barely too low and there wasn't a sign that said what the clearance was. I mean, come on, even McDonalds tells you what the clearance is on their drive-thru windows!
The most interesting thing on day two was driving through part of Yellowstone. Since it was dusk we saw TONS of elk just wandering around, not a care in the world. We saw a beautiful male just chilling out in a field, happily eating as if 20 people weren't standing there gawking at him and taking pictures. We tried to take a picture but he was a little too far away. It's on my mom's camera so she'll probably load that one when she posts her blog.
Anyways, day three was.........long. We spent a couple hours driving through more of Yellowstone, eventually losing the ability to find words to describe how amazing it was. I managed to be walking up to Old Faithful RIGHT when it went off...talk about good timing. We also went to look at the Grand Tetons. Then we drove through all of Wyoming in order to reach Spearfish, SD. That was an...interesting drive. At the beginning we had to go through some MAJOR road construction...I mean, the roads were basically gravel so we couldn't even go highway speed. Then we finished driving through the Rockies. You have no idea how huge they are. Unless you've driven through, of course. And they're just amazing to look at. Words can't even describe them. The pictures will help, but it's still nothing compared to actually driving through and seeing them.
The flat part of Wyoming was pretty boring...plus it was late so we were tired anyways. So, now we're in Spearfish, once we get ourselves moving we're going to head over to Deadwood...because we have to.
I will post the pictures in a bit, right now we want to get to Deadwood.
-Bridgete-
