We are travelling with friends from Texas by the name of Marvin and Dee Curb and we have a lot in common and have a lot of fun. Marvin and Bob are so much alike and they say that Dee and I are also. The boys as Dee calls them can't seem to pass up a Dairy Queen and where that is not available they will find ice cream somewhere. She also named them on our trip last year--Hekyl and Jekyl. The other day we got to laughing so hard in the car that someone decided that Dee was Lucy(because she is a redhead) and I am Ethel. The boys are forever telling jokes to our waitresses and whomever will stand still long enough much to the embarrassment(sp) of Dee but they are always clean and they enjoy it so much.
So today we took off driving south again to make the southern circle around the park; however, due to the snow we had last night we got as far as Craig Pass or actually before it because we were stopped by a employee saying that the road was closed up there and to go back and go the other way round to Old Faithful. Yesterday going to Jackson Hole we went across the Continental Divide and from now on described as CD. Then today we did it again before we got stopped. But before we also got to see buffalo ambling across the road and later on more elk doing the same.Temps when we got up were in the 30's. You get dressed in a hurry when there is no heat. We headed back to where we started and went north just as far to Canyon Village and took the road across the middle of the park to Norris. We stopped at the mud volcanoes but they weren't
too bubbly but this one hole you have seen in pictures with this real blue green water--fantastic. The sulfur cauldron is just in a drive out in the road and is surrounded by a small fence or people would drive into it and get a wheel stuck. Their are so many geyser areas and beautiful water falls that we saw all along the way(Gibbon Falls, Firehole Falls, and Artist Paintpots).
We ate lunch in the Old Faithful Lodge and it was beautiful. Then we went out to view Old Faithful doing her thing and she was faithful. We did not walk all around the boardwalk to all the other geysers because we had been sitting out in the cold for awhile and it was time to warm up.
We headed back the way we came because of Craig Pass closure and stopped and saw some other geysers and we finally got home.
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