Relaxing!
The kids watched Lego Batman for about the
fourth time (they had watched in the car, too!). In the afternoon, we went to play mini
golf. Papa won! Jonny got a hole-in-one on the first hole and
he started giving everyone tips, lol! Emily
and I each got one, too.
After mini-golf
we went to the gunfight show at the Irma Hotel.
It was pretty cheesy but still fun and the boys got to keep some
bullets.
The original Irma Hotel (named after Buffalo Bill Cody's daughter), on the main road through Cody
With the actors from the gunfight
With "Buffalo Bill"
As we were leaving, a little
girl saw Emily and told her mom, “Mom, that’s Anna from Frozen!” I didn’t hear it, but Dad said the little
girl seemed convinced she was the real Anna.
Emily even gave her a hug. We had
a good laugh over that!
Our cabin was so close to the Irma Hotel that we walked. This cute little sunroom was in front of a house a few doors down.
We ate dinner at
Granny’s Restaurant. The food wasn’t
anything special, but it was reasonably priced and I enjoyed my open-faced
roast beef sandwich.
After dinner, we
went to the Cody Rodeo.
While everyone
else found seats, Dad and I watched Daniel and Jonny ride the mechanical
bull.
Daniel
Jonathan
The rodeo was fun. Not a single rider stayed on a bull for even
close to eight seconds, though.
They
asked for kids to volunteer to chase the calf and Daniel and Andrew
volunteered. Jonathan thought about it
but then turned back around. Some of the
kids took off early so the boys didn’t really have a chance.
After it was over, Andrew, Emily, and
Nathaniel all took a turn on the bull.
Andrew hated it. At some point,
each one of the kids got a look on their face like, “What the heck did I get
myself into? This is way harder than it
looked!”
After the
rodeo, we stopped by Dairy Queen for ice cream and we saw one of the girls who
was in the rodeo and is from Tucson.
We
checked out of the cabin on Thursday. I
was up by 5:30am and we drove away by 8:30am.
I thought that was pretty good! Poor
Emily had woken up sick so I did her packing for her and let her rest. She took some medicine and it helped her
quite a bit. Emily and I rode with Dad. We stopped at the gas station again on the
way out of town, like we always do. It
was pretty full, and Dad had to drive around so he could pull up on the other
side. I asked, “Where’s Michael,” and
Dad said, “I don’t know, but it’s every man for himself,” and just then we saw
Michael who had just taken our spot! I
laughed and laughed. Dad wasn’t very
amused.
On the way into the East
Entrance, Dad spoke to the lady about the senior pass, and she happily refunded
the difference and gave Dad the lifetime senior pass. We had another pit stop at Fishing Village
and then went to the West Thumb Geyser Basin.
It was pretty busy. We walked
around and saw the fishing cone, black pool, abyss pool, etc.
After that we drove to Lewis Lake for our
picnic lunch. There was snow on the
ground and we were constantly bothered by the mosquitos. We ate up most of our food and headed out
through the south entrance.
There was a
big long line to get out and we were stopped there for a while. Finally, traffic got moving and they waved us
through. The Grand Tetons were so
beautiful!! When we were at the Buffalo
Bill Cody museum, I was talking to this lady who said that we had to stop at
the lodge and look at the view. I
thought it was odd that we would stop at a hotel that we weren’t staying at,
but we did and I am so glad we did! The
view was breathtaking! There were tour
buses there doing the same thing we were.
View from Jackson Lake Lodge; there was a huge wall of windows to sit and take in the beauty of the mountains
Outside at Jackson Lake Lodge
We were getting ready to leave and Michael said, “I’ll bet we make it to
Rigby by dinnertime. You know, all we
seem to do is drive, eat, and go to the bathroom!” He’s pretty much right! I had wanted to take Teton Park Road, but we
missed it and took the highway but the drive was still beautiful.
We went through Teton Pass that was a 10%
grade! I enjoyed driving through
Jackson, but it was very tourist-y and I’m glad we stayed in Cody. Not that Cody wasn’t tourist-y, but it was so
much better.
We arrived in Rigby by 7pm,
checked in to the hotel, and walked to dinner at New Star Chinese
restaurant. After dinner, we went back
to the hotel to relax. Nathaniel,
Andrew, and Daniel stayed with Papa across the hall from the rest of us.
The Chinese restaurant was so close that we decided to walk there
Tomorrow: Tour of BYU Idaho and Yellowstone Bear World!
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