Salt Lake City feeling human again. After another awesome free hotel breakfast (these are the best, particularly when you have 14 people sleeping in 3 rooms!), we said goodbye to Jim as he left for the airport to fly back to Boston to work for the week. The remaining 13 of us, including my parents joining us in our van, set off north for Idaho and Wyoming. We stopped in Idaho Falls for an awesomely efficient grocery store run, then in McCammon, Idaho, aka middle-of-nowhere, for a gas fill-up, which was almost a call to AAA gas fill-up. That was exciting!! Then finally to Wyoming and some crazy 10% grade declines down a mountain. Note to self: service breaks when we get home. Finally, we arrived in the Grand Tetons, my first time ever at this insanely beautiful park.
Time for a birthday picnic dinner! Grilled chicken and salad!
(P.S. Billy, I love your shirt!)
Happy birthday, Dad!
Dinner was exciting as we were joined by a mule deer....
...and then a bear and her cub!
That visit ended our dinner a bit earlier than planned. The bears were maybe 25 yards away, looking for dinner of their own. We cleared out, just in case Mary looked tasty. Speaking of Mary, she was REALLY mad when I scooped her up as she was running toward the bear because "I want to see Yogi, mommy!!"
Once the excitement ended and the bears were finally left alone to forage (despite the group of people stalking the creatures. And you wonder how bear attacks happen?), we got back in the cars and said goodbye to the Tetons.
Sunset over Yellowstone Lake upon arrival in the park. Aaaahhhhh
Total miles driven: 384.7
Zero children eaten by bears
Danny's proclamation for the day: "I'm kind of scaed of nature."
No comments:
Post a Comment