August 15, 2007Miles Driven 265
So this morning we woke up at 5:25. I know a little early for a birthday but actually we were about an hour late as we were schedule to be arriving at our float trip within twenty minutes at it was a bout an hour away. So we had to go to plan B and we didn’t really have a plan B. So we rolled with it, avoided a panic attack or two and let God dictate the day. And boy was it worth it.
We first took a slow scenic drive and stopped at some nice turnouts as the sun was rising to shine on the mountains. We caught one of the best signs yet. “Caution Bear Frequenting Area” Now this just cracks me up. What are you going to say? Hey Bear don’t I know you do you come here often. Is this a place you come a lot Mr. Bear. You look really familiar do you live near hear. Just a brilliant sign especially if you are looking to pick up a bear.
Basically spent the rest of the morning looking at great scenic turnoffs and checking out animals and the action around two of the bigger glacier lakes including Jenny Lake and Jackson Lake. When souvenir shopping and collecting one of four stamps I asked for a recommendation to an off the beaten place and got recommended leeks marina, which was awesome. We got to enjoy a great calzone lunch and relax on the marina overlooking the mountains. It was the life relaxing and just taking it the scenery. I really really like mountains. We then looked at our options and decided to start checking out Yellowstone since it was North of where we were.
So my first impressions of Yellowstone. It is a freaky, Weird, awesome, fascinating creepy world. Laura always tells me about this super volcano that exists which is creepy in its own right especially when you put yourself in the caldera of the volcano. Now it gets interesting. I have never been warned about the smell of Yellowstone. You would think I would know this do to the gaseous nature but it literally was taking my breath away to walk around this land filled with Geysers, hot springs, and thermo land mines. I gagged a couple of times and then I realized. This is a perfect place for a person like myself who just loves a nice high fiber diet. Who is going to call you out for you gas? It is a perfect sanctuary. To be honest it certainly is very parallel world to working with the severe profound children who are nonverbal. They generally aren’t going to ca2ll you out for you gas and if they do you are so proud of them that is worth it. We checked out lots of the geysers and there was even a place called the bacteria mat if that is to give you any idea what sort of land we were walking on and timed it perfectly to see old faithful erupt which is pretty darn neat.
And then we timed it perfectly to get back to camp squeeze in a shower and get dressed up tie and all for me and heels and all for Laura. The only day out of three weeks of camping that we actually cleaned up and Laura Took me to the Jenny lodge restaurant for my birthday dinner. What an awesome experience. I certainly love to be wined and dined it was five course meal a1nd just to them max I enjoyed it. The inside of the lodge was all wood and we sat on cowhide chairs and our salt and peppershakers were made of elk antlers. I started with escargot, followed by lobster bisque, then a nice salad, with a main entrée of pan seared duck breast served over coconut rice, with grilled mango salsa and a cilantro sauce, which were all superb and we finished it up with some nice desert. Laura had scallops which she thought were amazing and then had tow of the most interesting culinary treats of here life, sweet pea ice cream made with peas and mint and lavender caramel. We had a great view right outside the lodge of the grand tetons and had our waitress take our picture even though the mountains were hazy. Just a great great day but we were both exhausted and tomorrow we are at least trying to get on this sunrise float trip so we will be up at 4:30 tomorrow. So early to bed for us. Happy night to you and happy birthday to me.
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