That was Grizzly!

At lake Yellowstone Hotel we slept in a freezing cabin. Overnight the temperatures went down to 43 degrees (7 degrees celsius) . The heating in the cabin consisted of a minuscule hot air blower in the bedroom and an even smaller one in the bathroom. Eventually we managed to heat up the place a bit in order to have a decent breakfast. The coffee machine (brand Keurig?!) worked with plastic capsules like a cheap cousin of the Nespresso machine. The coffee was pretty decent, the tea tasted like crap, but the machine only worked half the time.. 
We set off to visit the park towards the North from the other side now, starting off with the Mud Volcano. Unfortunately it rained so hard and got so cold we quickly moved on to the next stop: the Yellowstone grand canyon. Not too bad this canyon. We also visited some nice waterfalls and continued onwards north to Mammoth Hot Springs. The raining got so bad there we just visited the terraces. At Mammoth Hot Springs we were amazed at seeing a giant elk taking a nap on the grass in the middle of the small town. We continued south and saw the Roaring Mountain with lots of geothermal activity. After seeing the Virginia cascade we went back to the hotel because the weather was so cold and wet, we got fed up.. On the way back things started to clear up and we even got some rays of sunshine.. It was still freezing cold. But then the magical moment happened.. Just before Canyon Village more than 20 cars were parked alongside the road: people had spotted a Grizzly bear with its cub. We managed to see it and get it on film! Then all of a sudden it was gone in the woods, but had come out on the other side because lots of cars over there had stopped, probably to see them... We got back in the car and followed up that lead. The bears were very close now. After getting out of the car and trying to get a close glimpse some guy yelled from his car: "watch out for the bisons!" A whole herd of Bisons came stampeding over the bridge, in between the cars! We ran back to our car and locked ourselves in, just before they ran on both sides next to us! By the time the danger was gone, the bears had already run back into the woods! But anyway, what a great exprerience! And we're certainly glad to be in one piece! We went back to the hotel and almost hit a bison standing on the road. We decided to get some food but had to wait an hour before we could get in, because apparently one has to reserve at this place. A bit tricky when you don't have a phone in your cabin, and forget about cell phones, they don't work here. So we complained to some friendly clerk till we were blue around the mouth until the manager gave us a pager(?), which would beep when it was our turn. That helped a lot. We still had to wait for one hour until the thing went bzz while listening to horrible piano music in the giant sitting room. But we finally got in and had a wonderful dinner. Out of frustration we ordered bison steak! Nighty-nite kids!!!