Grandmother, what big teeth you have!

We went to the Wyoming Dinosaur Center yesterday just before leaving Thermopolis. They have a great exhibit and you can even take a tour of the site where they are currently digging. They have a 116 foot Supersaurus on display, one of only two that have been discovered and the most complete. One of the volunteers gave us a brief description of how the fossils are removed from the field and processed in the laboratory. She explained that the Supersaurus display was made using lightweight castings of the real fossils since one vertebrae alone weighed 300 pounds and the building was not designed to support that kind of loading. The Center is a must see!

On to Cody where we now are. Anne discovered that our refrigerator had a critical recall and we were advised not to use it until we had it repaired! Hmmmm...what do you do with all that food? Apparently some of the units can and have released dangerous chemicals which burn, especially when powering the unit with propane so we turned it off at night and back on in the daytime. Fortunately we were able to get it repaired on short notice here in Cody and now we feel safer.

Cody is home to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. That is another must see. The Center has the Buffalo Bill Museum which interprets the life and times of William F. Cody; the Whitney Gallery of Western Art which presents works of C.M Russell, Frederic Remington, Albert Bierstadt and others; the Plains Indian Museum which illustrates the art, cultures, and lives of Plains Indian peoples; the Cody Firearms Museum which features a comprehensive collection of American and European firearms dating back to the sixteenth century; the Draper Museum of Natural History which explores the diversity of the Greater Yellowstone Region; and the McCracken Research Library which contains a wealth of information on topics related to the Center. The firearms collection has over 7000 pieces, of which about 2700 are currently being displayed.

Tomorrow we go to Yellowstone. Fishing Bridge is the only campground at Yellowstone that has RV hookups and we had hoped to stay there. We were informed that there were NO reservations being taken for that campground in July due to a sewer line break in the campground. We will go to Grants Village where we will dry camp which means we exist without an electrical, water and sewer hookup. Hopefully we will be able to run our generator to recharge out batteries and we will have a full fresh water tank and empty used water tanks. Short showers will be the order of the day.