Saturday's excursion was towards Old Faithful. We skipped Lower and Mid Geyser Basins, as well as Black Sands and Biscuit Basin because everyone else wanted to save their energy for walking around later. If time and energy permitted, we'd stop there on our way back. We waited only about 20 minutes for Old Faithful, then walked around part of upper basin for a few short minutes before we had to leave. By this point I'd noticed that our bathroom stops are longer than our sightseeing stops. I suspect that I should have been videotaping the toilets instead of the park. We proceeded south to West Thumb and stopped at Grant Village to buy food at the grill which we took it to a nearby picnic area and ate. This was a pleasant, unhurried 30 minutes respite from the hustle and bustle of "speed sightseeing" that we'd been doing. We went to the beach of Yellowstone Lake and played around there for 30 minutes to an hour the shot back to our hotel, making it a short day. We did stop at Black Sands Basin on the way back, but not the others. The 1959 earthquake destroyed Biscuit Basin and I decided to omit it from my itinerary. Since we were in town early, we went to Grizzly World, a local "bear conservation" park (read: really small zoo) where we saw some grizzlies and a wolf pack. Chu-Wan and I spent the rest of the evening walking around town seeing the sights.
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