Day 13- Yellowstone part 2

We changed our plans to go back into Yellowstone for a few reasons. The first is that we had not really seen this massive park and most importantly the boys wanted to get a special Yellowstone Jr Ranger patch. So after driving us crazy filling out all these questions, we were able to complete that in the morning. From there we started off to see various parts of the park that had animals. It was an experience. We saw 4 bears including a bear and her cubs not far from our car. The bison are in mating season and they were all over the place. In fact, it took us an extra hour to get out of the park because the bison were not moving from the road. They are fearless and on a few occasions came up to our car. The elk too were all over the place. The boys love it. At 3pm we were able to take a great ranger tour of the Yellowstone grand canyon. We had a fantastic tour guide who knew tons about the park and history. He taught us how to tell the difference between the 4 types of trees we see (fur is friendly and spruce is spiky). He learned all about what makes Yellowstone such a unique place.
After this it was off for another long car ride to Cody (this is by far the hardest part of this trip with lots of fighting) but with a payoff at the end of this one. We went to the Cody rodeo. The boys were so excited going to the rodeo. I did not expect they would be as excited as they were. They got a chance to rope a fake bull, got their face painted and ran around the area chasing a calf trying to get a piece of material from it's tail. It was a lot of fun. After a full day it was back to a new hotel in another new city.