It was another nice drive through the mountains to Yellowstone. We left Utah and went through a small corner of Montana before entering Wyoming and Yellowstone.
Mike – We were hardly in Montana at all.
Me – I know, I said we would only be in it for about 15 minutes.
Mike – But I didn’t even pee in Montana so I can’t officially say I’ve been there.
Me – Horrified look.
Mike, very proudly – I know what you’re thinking – Yup I married that guy.
Me – Shudder
Our first stop was at some mud pots. There were a nice board walk loop to check out. Mike told us to pose for a picture and I got a turrets-like urge: I told The Girl ‘Let’s stick our bum out at him!’
I did, she didn’t.
I turned around.
There was the tour group that we had passed, who knew 20 people could walk so quietly on a board walk.
One lady was laughing her ass off at me.
I screamed ‘You weren’t supposed to catch up to us that fast’
The Girl rolled her eyes at me.
Mike, of course, captured it on film.
We drove around the park and looked at different formations. Mike tried to dare me to stick my hand in the water to see if it was really warm – I guess the steam didn’t convince him. We saw a couple of Elk and Buffalo and stopped and took some pictures.
We made our way to Old Faithful and got there 20 minutes before it was scheduled to erupt. There was lots of steam a few little spurts and then all of a sudden it exploded about 10 minutes late, but well worth the wait.
It was getting late and there were still a few things we wanted to see. We stopped by Lake Hotel and they actually had a room so we decided to stay for the night in the park and finish off everything else in the morning.
We checked into a 2nd floor room thing it would be best to be away from the main floor. There was no elevator but that was ok since we only had to go up one floor. We got up to the landing and looked for 206, but the rooms were all 100’s. The second floor turned out to be the 3rd floor.
I had the onset of a bad migraine so I crawled into bed with a cold facecloth and The Girl arranged the room. I thought it was weird that the media cabinet was on the side of the room instead of in front of the beds. The Girl asked if she could watch some TV and I said ok, as long as it was quiet.
Next thing I hear is a shriek of horror – ‘There’s no TV!’ Just then Mike got to the room after parking the car. He looked around and decided that we were not playing a game and he called the front desk – There are no TVs in Yellowstone. Ok, the park is absolutely beautiful but we are a techno geek family. We decided that we were going to have to get by with our three laptops for entertainment. We all piled into one of the beds and watched Dumb and Dumber. By then it was 11PM and we had survived a night without TV.
The funny part was that earlier in the day Mike had suggested that we adopt a non-electronics day every second week or once a month. It’s a nice idea but not for our family.
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