Goodbye dear library buddies, I am retiring to a lush prairie!

Dear Buffalo Buddy Buddies! 

I am retiring and heading to a beautiful lush prairie where I can graze all day in the warm sunshine.

However, I am very excited to let you know that there will be a new library animal friend coming soon for you to check out and take on your adventures around the city, state, country and world!

Be watching at the Children's Desk to be the first to welcome our new friend!

Thanks to those of you who took me on some amazing adventures.

Your friend, Bison Buddy.

Bison Buddy Down South! Part 1!

Hello my fellow intrepid travellers!  I am off to the wonderful city of New Orleans, Louisiana and decided to share some of my adventures with you!

My trip started out early in the morning...the sun was barely even up!
This is far to early for bisons in my opinion.

Several air planes later and many states south of my Montana home, I arrived in New Orleans!  The friends I was staying with lived very near to the French Quarter, the cultural and historical heart of New Orleans.  All the buildings had beautiful iron balconies and there were so many narrow streets that went this way and that way!  It made me very glad that bison can't drive cars!

Yours truly in the French Quarter!

After wandering the Quarter and looking at all the wonderful shops, I was quite hungry and in need of a delicious beignet from the world famous Cafe du Monde!



Just to let you know, I only ate one bison-sized beignet...I let my friends have the rest.

This city is so lively and full of music!  Ever street seems to have it's own band.  Walking the French Quarter is like listening to the soundtrack of the city itself!


Here is my friend Colin (on the trombone) with his band mates,
making some old time jazz on the steps of the courthouse.

Just because I don't carry a wallet doesn't mean I won't shop til I drop with my New Orleans friends.  We found shops with so many beads and mask that you could dress up the whole city!  We found shops with sparkly new things and shops with funky old things.  My friend even found an old mantel for her living room.  I, of course, immediately offered to help get it back to her apartment....

I make an excellent guide and lookout.

That is it for the this portion of my travels, but stay tuned in the next few days for "Bison Buddy Down South part 2:  Bison goes Renaissance! (Faire that is!)

Trip to Wyoming

I left Bozeman with two companions.  We were heading for Wyoming.  But before we got there, we stopped in Hardin to visit the Big Horn County Historical Museum.  Here's a picture of us in front of the sign.  Can you find me?

 

The museum has lots of old buildings including a train depot from Red Lodge and some old train cars! Here we are on one of the train cars-- we think it looks like a caboose.

Finally we reached Wyoming.  We had to document this momentous occasion of course!

It was nice to reach our destination.  I was glad to stop for a few days.  We visited both sets of my companions' grandparents.  We went to an outdoor pool in Sheridan and to the movies in Casper.  

Then it was time to head home.  On the way back we stopped for ice cream in a town with the best name ever!

We also made a stop at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  In the museum we learned that the Native Americans had over 80 uses for buffalo.   They used almost every part of the buffalo from the muscles and sinew to the hide.   I had to get a picture of that!

Another interesting thing I learned from the Battle of the Little Bighorn was that it took only about two hours before it was all over.  There are a lot of tombstones.  White stones designate a soldier and red stones designate a warrior.  This is the only memorial in the western hemisphere that has markers where the people actually died in battle.  In this battle, the Native Americans won.  

I LOVED my trip!

BIG TIMBER WATER SLIDES!

 Here are a few shots from my trip to Big Timber Waterslides on Sunday!  We had a great time, and I met a lot of nice new friends!

Saftey First!  We were all required to watch a saftey video, so we knew all the rules of the water park.

Here are a few of the slides behind me!

Here I am taking a float in the Kiddie Pool!

This is a fun froggy slide for the kids. 

In the Kiddie Pool there are floating hippos, snakes, and a crocodile!

My Kiddie Pool companion, Sophia.

Taking my turn on the Froggy Slide!  Yeah!                   Very refreshing!

This ride is called Old Faceful!  (A pun on Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone Park)

Here I am checking out the tubes on this awesome ride!

This is my sliding buddy, Avery. I am sitting on his head.  He took me down some killer tubes!

Day Hike to Flathead Pass Trail near Fairy Lake!

This was a glorious hike.  We started on the trail at 10:00 am parking near Fairy Lake.  We built fairy houses, rock houses for spiders and insects, had some great food, and enjoyed getting to know some new friends, Megan, Michael, and Nia!

Here is a photo of my traveling companion, Sophia!