Yellowstone and Montana are BIG
You know, Montana is huge. It takes roughly 8.5 hours to drive from Seattle to Butte. Amazing. I have also found out someone I was in Husky Band with is now a big time Producer and Daytime news anchor/reporter for the show Montana Today, so Hasalyn Harris (now Richards as I understand she just got married, go Hassie!) if you ever read this I wish I had known that you were on tv before my trip so I could have at least tuned into channel 13 while I was in Missoula.
Just the same, Yellowstone was great. Lots of geysers. Chris took all of the pictures. I'm sure some time they will be somewhere and hopefully I will get around to putting them up...yeah yeah yeah, stop shaking your head at me. Some day doesn't necessarily mean "soon". (You laugh now, ok, laugh, dammit!) We saw a lot of bison and some mountain chipmunks -- too cute. One red squirrel was spotted but too quick to take any pictures. We stayed at this place called 320 Ranch which happened to be about a 35 minute drive away from the West Entrance of Yellowstone. The place was great--log cabins with little kitchenettes. Fun! We did a lot of hiking around and random driving as well.
On our way to and from Yellowstone we stopped at this place in Phillipsburg, MT called Gem Mountain where you can buy dirt and look for your own sapphires. If you find one you get to keep it. We ended up with quite a few sapphires and a few of them are even being sent off to be heat-treated. I highly recommend the place as it is a lot of fun.
In Butte, there is this restaurant called The Derby. OMG--food to die for. People are way nice and don't let the Keno Cage fool you, this place serves the best steak I have ever had in a restaurant. We also visited the Berkeley Pit in Butte...it is a large...pit. Uh ok. (Laugh!) Stopped in Yakima to visit The Lee family and stayed in the new Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Yakima. VERY nice as well.
My vacation must have been good even though this blog entry is quite lame and undescriptive. After we unpacked and ate dinner Sunday night I thought I would log into my work email to chuck the junk--and I couldn't remember my password. I locked myself out and had to call my helpdesk. Nice, huh? This weekend we are going to my aunt's house in Fall City to enjoy her company and play Mah Jong.
And Happy Belated Birthday to my brother!! Wheeeeeeeeee.
Just the same, Yellowstone was great. Lots of geysers. Chris took all of the pictures. I'm sure some time they will be somewhere and hopefully I will get around to putting them up...yeah yeah yeah, stop shaking your head at me. Some day doesn't necessarily mean "soon". (You laugh now, ok, laugh, dammit!) We saw a lot of bison and some mountain chipmunks -- too cute. One red squirrel was spotted but too quick to take any pictures. We stayed at this place called 320 Ranch which happened to be about a 35 minute drive away from the West Entrance of Yellowstone. The place was great--log cabins with little kitchenettes. Fun! We did a lot of hiking around and random driving as well.
On our way to and from Yellowstone we stopped at this place in Phillipsburg, MT called Gem Mountain where you can buy dirt and look for your own sapphires. If you find one you get to keep it. We ended up with quite a few sapphires and a few of them are even being sent off to be heat-treated. I highly recommend the place as it is a lot of fun.
In Butte, there is this restaurant called The Derby. OMG--food to die for. People are way nice and don't let the Keno Cage fool you, this place serves the best steak I have ever had in a restaurant. We also visited the Berkeley Pit in Butte...it is a large...pit. Uh ok. (Laugh!) Stopped in Yakima to visit The Lee family and stayed in the new Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Yakima. VERY nice as well.
My vacation must have been good even though this blog entry is quite lame and undescriptive. After we unpacked and ate dinner Sunday night I thought I would log into my work email to chuck the junk--and I couldn't remember my password. I locked myself out and had to call my helpdesk. Nice, huh? This weekend we are going to my aunt's house in Fall City to enjoy her company and play Mah Jong.
And Happy Belated Birthday to my brother!! Wheeeeeeeeee.
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