End of Day 10: BP Tour

I don't know WHAT is wrong with my phone's email. It was working fine until I tried to post my nightly blog entry last night & suddenly it couldn't send any email. It receives just fine, but can't send. This same thing happened when we crossed over from the Pacific to the Mountain time zones; I had to delete my mail account from my phone & start over from scratch. If I have to do the same thing again, I can, but it's frustrating because it just stopped working suddenly, after several days of working the way it was supposed to. Grrr! [/rant]



Anyway, I'm typing in this post via my laptop.

This morning, we all got up & loaded the car, then headed downstairs for breakfast. We ate & said our goodbyes to people we'd met during the Festival. Then, we headed south toward Yellowstone. We went in via the town of West Yellowstone and stopped at just about every geyser or other thermal thing we could.

This is because the last time I was in the park was 2006. Brian & I decided at the last minute to drive through the park on our way home from Saskatchewan, so we didn't have much time & didn't stop to see anything except Old Faithful.

Because I had already seen OF, we didn't stop to see it today. But I got lots of cool pics from the paint pots & other geysers & thermal things we saw today!

Here's a 10-second video of a fumerole we saw at the Paint Pots in Yellowstone. It sure was noisy!!

We also saw elk, bison, bald eagles, and numerous other small critters.

We exited Yellowstone and entered Grand Teton park. OMG, those mountains are so gorgeous! I have lots of pics of them, too, which I will upload to Flickr when I have more than 2 minutes of free time (which realistically means: some time next week, *maybe*).

We exited Grand Teton at Jackson Hole & found our hotel room, then had dinner at Sidewinders, a sports bar with 38 television sets and 28 draft beers. Now, we're back in our hotel room & getting ready for bed.

Tomorrow, we have to leave early so that we can get to Burley, ID, at a reasonable time. We have a 6:30 concert tomorrow night! :-)

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