June 6, 6:37 AM.

My dad woke me up BECAUSE WE WERE GOING ON A TRIP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1 1/2 years! This time, this trip would be to Yellowstone National Park, Also known as the first National Park in the U.S. I was pretty excited to see  the numerous animals and Geysers there, but I was mainly excited to get to go somewhere in such a long time!

First we went to the Airport and took 2 flights to reach the Jackson Hole Airport. The first flight stopped at Los Angeles and the next flight went to Jackson hole. There, we got a rental car, the Hyundai Elantra. And started to head toward West Yellowstone/The White Buffalo Hotel.

As my dad was driving, I was looking out my window and saw, what I had never seen in California. The car and the main road were surrounded by a million acres of greenery on all sides. And further in the distance there were these really tall mountains. At the top of these mountains I saw this white stuff, which my dad says is snow!

Since none of us had, had a proper meal that day my dad decided to stop at this Dornans Pizza place to eat dinner. (Even though it was only 5 PM and we usually never eat dinner that early.) After I chomped down the pizza, I hopped back in the car, ready for a road trip through the wilderness.

After about 20 minutes we reached the Grand Teton and Yellowstone parks toll booth. My parents had to pay for both because when you enter Grand Teton, you can only come out via one of the Yellowstone entrances. I looked on the right to see if I could spot any animals and my mom looked on the left. Then just after a few minutes I spotted some big hairy brown things roaming around the grasslands. My dad saw it too, so he stopped the car. I wondered what animal it was, so I checked the Animals book I had gotten from the airport, and according to the book we had seen our first Bison/Buffalo’s at the park!

Immediately, we stopped again. This time it wasn’t for Bison. This time my dad had spotted 3 deer, or to be more specific 3 Mule Deer! They were closer to the road than the Bison, so I could see what they were doing (Eating Grass). Also Fun fact:  A single Mule Deer can run up to 60 mph, they are only 2nd to the Cheetah worldwide!

So far the trip was a huge success. Just around 15-20 minutes in we had seen 2 species of Animals in Grand Teton. But then, we weren’t able to spot anything for a long period of time, because the left and right sides were covered by Thousands of trees. We headed out through this clearing and saw that a lot of people had stopped and were looking in to the forest with their binoculars. Turns out that someone saw a Mother bear and 4 cubs in the morning, so people were waiting for them to come out again. We didn’t have time to wait, since it was getting late. BUT, we just saw a bear a few minutes later without even having to wait!

A pretty big Grizzly bear was on our right side of the road. Suddenly the bear was crossing the road quickly. It was only a few feet away from another car on the other side, so I thought it would attack it. It didn’t. Then it crossed the road and disappeared into the woods. NOW THAT WAS AWESOME!

I was expecting to see a bunch more animals on the drive back to the hotel, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. As we entered Yellowstone, there were only thick forests, Long Grasslands and Marshy Areas. And when we were close to the Madison Junction, we saw many small Geysers, with steam coming from them. It was getting dark and hard to see, but with luck, after the Madison Junction I saw something brown on a small hill. It was a blur of a brown thing since the car was moving fast. So my dad turned the car around and it turned out I had seen a Female Moose. Which is rare because there were only 100 Moose in Yellowstone.

After a while we reached the town of West Yellowstone. That ended the first day, in which I have to say later, It was the best day!