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Saturday, July 20, 2019

National Bison Reserve and a Breakout room

We had a fun and entertaining day yesterday with Rod and Shirley. They took us ip onto the Flathead Indian Reservation to the National Bison Reserve. It is a huge fenced area with a variety of wild animals on the Reserve.  They have 250 - 300 Bison, not including calves.; also they have elk, pronghorn antelope, and bears. Also saw a few rattlesnake warning signs.

We saw 3 Grizzlies - A Mama and her cub, and about a 2 year old. We didn't see too many other animals until we got to the end of the road.

At the end of the road we came up on a group of pronghorn in the meadows. We saw 3 bucks and about 10 does. No babies that we could see.

The biggest surprise, was what cane upon last. We saw a few bison spread out here and there, mostly bulls. As we traveled along slowly,  we saw a herd coming up an embankment from a creek.  We timed it perfectly. There were probably 70 head of bison. We were so close because they came right up the road. We could hear them communicating with one another. They were rolling in the dirt and dusting themselves. Mamas were nursing the young, and we saw the oldest bull in the herd. He walked up the hill and just sttod there as the rest of the herd went aling their marry little way. He was in no hurry to catch up.

It was really cool to see so many at one time. The babies were cute and there was a very young one that was about a week old.

Later that night, Mike, Dave, Rod, Shirley, Brittiny, Cameron and I went and did an escape room (they call them Breakout Rooms up here). We had two more young ladies join us that had never done one before. Actually we were pretty even when it came to a ratio of newbies and those that have done a room before. It was an interesting place. The rooms were in an actual house that was probably built in the early 1900s. We did an Alice in Winderland themed room. It took all 9 of us to escape with 6 seconds to spare.











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