Wedding Adventures - Part 2 Trying to see Yellowstone by bike

While planning our trip to Wyoming we hatched many grand plans we had hoped to achieve - bike Yellowstone, climb The Grand Teton, oh yeah and get married!  After much though and deliberation (all of 5 minutes) we decided that the best time for our Yellowstone tour would be in the early part of the week of June 21st.  This way we would have the later part of the week and the weekend to tend to any last minute wedding details.  As plans tend to go, this one went out the door. 

As stated in the previous post we spent Monday morning with our photographer taking pictures and trying to look like we were not freezing.  Afterward we decided that we deserved something hot and headed to the Bunnery for breakfast. This was followed-up with a trip for Matt to get his hairs cut.   He had been talking about 'A Cut Above' and how much he liked it - I now know why.  You have your choice of playboy, maxim, and car and driver to peruse while you wait.  What guy wouldn't want to get their hair cut at a place like that?!?  After that the day started to get away from us and we determined that we probably would not start biking after all.  O'well, no big deal we figured we would drive up to Yellowstone, camp Monday night and get a early start Tuesday. 

We finally get ourselves in order and drove to Yellowstone.  Upon entering the park we are met with a sign informing us all campgrounds except one are FULL.  We quickly head to the only 'available' campground and learn the reason it isn't full is because it is closed.  That didn't stop anyone, us included, from finding a patch of land to call our own.   We went to bed that night thinking Tuesday would be the big day, the day we would start our tour. 

Tuesday morning was cold and rainy.  To top it off Melissa wasn't feeling too hot so...Matt made an executive decision.  We would drive to Old Faithful and see what there was to see on Tuesday and FINALLY start our tour Wednesday.

Melissa had never been to Yellowstone prior to this and was somewhat taken aback by the huge crowds that we found.  There is stadium seating around Old Faithful, crazy!  Anyhow, we spent the better part of Tuesday walking around and viewing the geysers in the Old Faithful area.  They really are amazing formations and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.  We were also thinking it was a great plan so we didn't have to deal with this zoo atmosphere on our bikes.  Ticking this area off our list would allow us to cruise by later in the week.