Forget the photo on the left for now, I'll get back to that. Today I'll start with our Compliment Tally. Are you ready? TWO!! The boys received a gushing compliment from two staff members at the Colter Bay Visitor Center in the Grand Teton National Park. They couldn't tell us enough about how wonderful our boys had been! That should have been great news alone, but later that evening our waiter at dinner in Gardiner, Montana also gave the boys a sincere compliment. So that's three compliments in three days (two in this one day) -- and that means three treats coming. We'll start those today (Wednesday)
Yesterday was a day of travel and site-seeing. We left our motel after a big breakfast at a restaurant and started to make the 110 mile or so journey to Gardiner. This is a slow drive since it's coming through the Grand Teton National Park, John Rockefeller Parkway, and Yellowstone National Park. So traffic moves slowly and we're stopping. We stopped at that visitor center at Colter Bay and this was the first time many of the boys bought souvenirs, so leader Jeff (our banker) had a busy hour handling transactions. We then headed on up the parkway toward Yellowstone when it wasn't long before we saw the first herd of bison. That made quite an impression - and within a minute so an antelope. Later on we saw a few more bison, and look forward to seeing more great wildlife as we explore Yellowstone over the next few days.
Yesterday was a day of travel and site-seeing. We left our motel after a big breakfast at a restaurant and started to make the 110 mile or so journey to Gardiner. This is a slow drive since it's coming through the Grand Teton National Park, John Rockefeller Parkway, and Yellowstone National Park. So traffic moves slowly and we're stopping. We stopped at that visitor center at Colter Bay and this was the first time many of the boys bought souvenirs, so leader Jeff (our banker) had a busy hour handling transactions. We then headed on up the parkway toward Yellowstone when it wasn't long before we saw the first herd of bison. That made quite an impression - and within a minute so an antelope. Later on we saw a few more bison, and look forward to seeing more great wildlife as we explore Yellowstone over the next few days.
After our "trail" lunch at Lewis Lake, we went to the Old Faithful area - which, as you can imagine, is very crowded with tourists - so our group was hardly noticeable. We had just missed one eruption, so we had a little over an hour to explore the visitor center there including more souvenir stalking. Then it was time for the next eruption of Yellowstone's most famous geyser.
After leaving, we headed through the northern section of the park (which includes the geyser basin) to our motel home for the next four nights in Gardiner, MT where we walked to dinner through the small town along the Yellowstone River where we enjoyed great pizza at the K-Bar - a Gardiner landmark since 1953.
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After leaving, we headed through the northern section of the park (which includes the geyser basin) to our motel home for the next four nights in Gardiner, MT where we walked to dinner through the small town along the Yellowstone River where we enjoyed great pizza at the K-Bar - a Gardiner landmark since 1953.
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