While the beds at Yellowstone appeared firmer and more comfortable, it was not to be.  The
first difficulty would prove to be the radiant heater which warmed the room.  Rather than emitting
a set amount of heat, or maintaining the temperature, the heater started out leaving the room
rather chilly, but as the outside temperature fell, it became hotter and hotter inside, until we
were awoken repeatedly and reduced to nothing but sheets.  Additionally, I finally discovered it
was the fluffy pillows that were bothering my back at around 8:30 am in the morning, by which time
it was too late.  We arose and ate breakfast (Which was quite good) and set out around 10 am, to
discover it was beginning to snow.
  The most obvious rode to Old Faithful closed, we took the round-about way, which took neary 2 
hours.  As we approached the site, the snow returned with a vengeance, reducing the road to slush
and nearly forcing us to turn around.  However, by the time we had decided to, we were a mile outside
of our goal, and decided to press on.  Upon our arrival, we ate lunch at the grill nearby,
and suited up for a tour of the geysers.  At this point I discovered the ski mask that my mother
had packed was for a child, not an adult.  The appearance that resulted was quite amusingly awful,
fortunately, I held the camera, and hence there is no photographic record of it.
  Old Faithful had just erupted when we arrived, so we set out to tour the other geysers, and
the tactical error of handing me the map was made.  As such, we got sidetracked, and hiked up
to the Solitary Geyser, which was quite nice, but due to the intense steaming caused by the cold
weather, wasn't a great deal to look at.  Returning at the bottom end of the projected time
window for Old Faithful, we discovered it liked to erupt early, as it did so right as we arrived
there.  It wasn't a particular spectacular eruption, and was only partially visible due to the
large amounts of steam given off.  Retiring to the car to empty the camera contents onto the laptop,
we went back out to see the part we had missed.
  As we were retracing our earlier steps, we passed Beehive Geyser, where a crowd had gathered.
This geyser erupted only once or twice a day, and a smaller geyser erupting nearby was considered
an indicator.  After about 10 minutes, we tired of waiting, and were about 50' up the trail
when it erupted.  Coming back, we got several pictures of the very splendid eruption, which
also made a considerable amount of noise.  
  We continued on our way, but my mother was already growing tired at this point (We'd been walking
for essentially 3 hours)  and cut our tour short, crossing a bridge to take pictures there.  The
weather was gorgeous at this point, if intermittant, so we decided to attempt the return journey
to our hotel.  It was 4 pm, and the return drip was approximately 2 hours and 70 miles.  On our 
return, we stopped briefly by the Blacksands Basin, but it was a short trip, as most of the geysers
and springs there steamed so much as to be basically unviewable.
  On our return, the snow really started to come down, blowing almost horizontal at times, and
traffic ground to a standstill.  To my horror, it wasn't due to the road (Which was growing
worse by the minute) but people had stopped dead in the road to photograph bison.  Regrettably,
there were too many for me the pull them personally from their vehicles and give them a good
maming.  Once out of the minor snowstorm, the roads improved, as we saw sunshine and good
weather as we drove back, the terrain that was earlier snowcovered transformed into verdant
hills and green vallies.
  We returned to our hotel around 6 pm, and took showers and relaxed pending our 8:15 pm
dinner reservations.  It snowed briefly as we pulled in, it snowed briefly before turning
sunny once more.  Even given the good weather, we didn't want to be on the roads at night
if they iced or snow came once more.