This past weekend we went with my mom and dad to Red Lodge, Montana to spend the night and drive over the Beartooth Highway into Cooke City located inside Yellowstone National Park. We left Saturday morning after dropping off 2 eager puppies at Bark City, the local doggie daycare. We enjoyed the time in the car together and talked about everything from our favorite tv show True Blood to Baby V's arrival. We ate lunch in Red Lodge before checking into the hotel. Rock Creek was flowing along side the hotel and it looked like it might have some good fishing, but access was an issue. The guys hung out while Mom and I shopped in Red Lodge. It mostly had touristy shops with a few nice gift stores. One in particular was called The Glass Rabbit where they had adorable baby things - if only BV had shown him/herself!! We had a wonderful dinner Saturday where we ate noteworthy clam chowder and not soon forgotten cheesecake. 
Sunday morning after breakfast we got on the highway and drove up the steep switch backs eventually reaching nearly 11,000 feet above sea level. The sights were spectacular and included many marmots aka rockchucks and seldom seen mountain goats. The mountain lakes were abundant. One still had ice chunks in it.
We made our way to Cooke City within YNP and came out through the east exit at Gardiner, Montana. In the park we saw a huge bull elk, lots of bison, and even a black bear eating grass. We started referring to BV as the bear cub (a reference back to my grizzly bear post), so little bear cub, we look forward to taking you to the park and watching your amazement at this great big world.
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