Friday, Sept. 20

We started out the day in Mammoth Hot Springs, there were no elk in the village on our way through.  I'd overheard they had been there earlier.  The Mammoth Hot Springs have three terraces, a lower, middle and upper.  We walked the lower terrace, the water cascaded down the colorful rocks, creating a sheen on the rocks.  We decided to try the upper terrace, it looked flat, Not.  We looked down upon the springs, then, against my better judgment, we walked down over 100 stairs, I'm glad I did, there was a terrace that had pools of differing colors then the water cascaded down over the smooth rocks, again making a sheen appearance.  Further down the road we went to Sheepeater Cliff.  The lava cliff has been there for over 500,000. The Shoshone Indians nick name was Sheepeater.  One of our favorite spots is Fountain Paint Spot, bubbily mud in various colors and some springs.  We finally made it to Old Faithful, as we turned into the parking area it was erupting, that gave us 90 minutes to kill.  Old Faithful Inn is a log building, we don't know what year it was built, it had a huge 4 sided stone fireplace an amazing pendulum clock probably 20 feet tall. the dining room was huge, seats over 500 guests.  Since we had some time to kill we thought eating some ice cream would help full that void.  We weren't disappointed, it was supposed to go off at 5:20, plus or minus ten minutes.  It was about 5:04.  There are several rows of benches around part of the viewing area and they were full.  It was amazing.  We made  it back to the coach about 6:30, poor Luci had been inside all that time, Patsy, a neighbor in the parked walked her a few times.  Still we felt guilty.

Saturday, Sept. 21at

We were pretty tired after two solid days in that altitude so we stayed "home" to do much needed housekeeping plus to spend some quality time with Luci.  We took her geocacheing in a couple of places where we could let her run.  We spent the rest of the time getting ready to move to Thayne, Wy.