This morning, we woke up to a winter wonderland. Temperature was 30 F and beautiful snow. We are fortunate for the large pines around the campground which protects us from wind.

The first priority was taking a shower and then going to the store or visitor center to see about hiking trails.

Showers are located in the check in office. We are given a ticket that allows for 2 showers per trailer per day. This is more than enough for John and myself. Showers could be costly if you had a family of 5 and everyone wanted to shower daily. The cost per shower is $5.15. That would cost a family of 5 – $15.45 per day… The showers had plenty of hot water. John and I have been at some places where the hot water was scarce or should I say almost warm (like Guernsey State Park in Wyoming).

After showering. we were off to the store, visitor center and hopefully a place to mail post cards…

Turns out that the Fishing Bridge Visitor Center isn’t open yet and will open in 4 days.

The store has a bunch of Yellowstone items but also a nice grocery section. The manager said the store will be receiving in vegetables (like lettuce) later this week. They were already out of milk and bacon. But had eggs, bread and other types of meats. The manager said if we need anything during our stay to come and ask. She will see what she can do for us. The prices were quite a bit higher than we expected. A dozen eggs were around $8. I’ll take a picture of the store next time we are in it.

We ended up driving to Lake Village which has a post office and is only about 5 miles away. This will be hard to believe that I had posted cards to mail. The USPS workers were great about providing tips on hiking locations. Unfortunately, quite a few of the trails are closed right now due to bear activity. I guess bears when waking from hibernation are not morning bears and can be unbearable. 🙂

On the way back from the Post Office, there was a beautiful overlook of the mountains and Yellowstone Lake. I think John took more scenery pictures while I focused on the selfies.

Once back we prepped the car to hiking and animal watching. Which essentially means putting our chairs and binoculars in the car. Our goal was to hike Storm Point (2.3 miles) and view Indian Pond. The National Park Service website said the trail was open and my book indicated Marmots lived there. Unfortunately, the trail had a sign “closed due to bear activity”. We took a shorter path to view Indian Pond. We plan to come back later and will take pictures of the trail then.

If you’ve never seen a marmot, marmots look like a groundhog only larger. They are really cute and yell at you to leave their territory. Hopefully we see one and can add a picture to a blog.

We decided instead to go to Pelican Nature Trail. We will create a separate post just for Pelican trail.

When we got back to the trailer, I made John his favorite — Bacon. Ended up putting it on an open face egg, bacon and cheese sandwich. I made stuffing for myself with Rotisserie chicken chunks added to it. For supper and leftovers, I made Beef Lentil Soup. John loves it and it’s great to eat on these cold days.