Have you ever tried booking lodging in Yellowstone National Park for the 4th of July weekend? Have you ever tried to do it the week before the 4th of July weekend? That's what we had to do since deciding at the last minute to spend the short work week in the park. After several days of refreshing the Xanterra website looking for cancellations and calling the reservation people every hour or so we finally ended up with places to stay every night, although we would be moving every day.
Friday the 1st was spent getting ready for the trip and running all the errands so that we could leave. Today being Saturday the 2nd we set off from American Fork and drove the six plus hours up to West Yellowstone; well actually just a little farther as we had booked a place called the Hebgen Lake Mountain Inn, about 15 miles from the town. Turned out to be a good decision as the view was nice and it wasn't crowded at all. But with the lake right across the street the kids wanted to go fishing. That's okay; I can take them fishing; I just haven't fished in over 25 years! How do you thread and tie everything together? After a frustrating start I finally got the poles ready and off we went and fished, for about 45 minutes. That's all the time we had as we were going to the rodeo and needed to stop and buy sweatshirts (oops, left them at home). No, we didn't catch anything but we tried! Well, the kids tried anyway. I was too busy untangling lines and fetching hooks from the rocks they had gotten wedged behind and shooing off mosquitoes.
The rodeo was fun, especially watching the kids chase the calf trying to get the prize ribbon off of its tail. Now we're giving the kids baths and trying to get everyone to bed; tomorrow we're heading into the park and after doing part of the northwest loop we will end up in Gardiner (near Mammoth).
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