IT'S TIME TO SPOUT OFF!!!

We drove into this place called Yellowstone
National Park on Thursday.
It's kind of like Pennsylvania only totally
different. Well, maybe not totally. There are
trees in both places.
And both have traffic jams!
In Pennsylvania they're usually caused by
construction.
Here traffic came to a halt because this big
animals (they call them Buffalo) think they
can walk across the highway anytime they
want and all the drivers seem to be afraid to
get out and give them a piece of their mind!
Of course they do weight as much as most
pick up trucks! (The buffalo that is!)
When we finally got moving they took us
to this hole in the ground that had smoke
coming out! I wanted to get really close
but there were warning signs prohibiting
that.
Then, at a time everybody seemed to
know the clouds of smoke gave way to
spouts of steaming hot water rising a
hundred feet or so into the air. They tell
me it does it all day and night about every
90 minutes and they it "Old Faithful."
I guess it's some kind of leak that
nobody can fix. But it does look pretty
neat at it spouts off!
Speaking of spouting off, my most
frighting part of the trip so far was going
to dinner at some sort of "Cowboy Bar-B-
Q" in Jackson Hole Wyoming.
A woman appeared before our tour group
and others sitting and standing under a
shelter and proceeded to tell us what at
first seemed to be the entire history of the
old west.
To reduce it to this sentence it was the
story of a young man who was involved
with Indians (Native Americans that is),
loved Jackson Hole, and started what has
evolved into the Bar-B-Q."
It looked like the start of a doomed
evening. But things aren't always as
they appear.
About the time most of the guests had
their eyes turned into the sky hoping for
a miracle....it came!
It came in the form of a horse drawn
wagon train that carried us up a mountain
to a fantastic dinner complete with
wonderful entertainment.
I'm so thankful we didn't "spout off"
while listening to "How the West Was
Won" before we had the adventure of
a life time in true "Cowboy style."
Happy Trails everyone!
Hope all your NEWS is good!