Hello, from Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel!
Dinner last night at Old Faithful Snow Lodge was great! Robert had a house salad to start, followed by a 10 oz. sirloin steak, which he said was great. I had a house salad to start, followed by half a roast chicken with buttermilk mashed potatoes and seasonal veggies – also very good! This was followed by a small chocolate bundt cake topped with vanilla ice cream – Wow! Robert had a glass of Laiphroaig (single malt Scotch – a long, long way from home) for dessert.
Up this morning about 7 – it got REALLY chilly last night, which made for GREAT sleeping weather. Down to breakfast (buffet; very good, and undisturbed by fire alarms!) and out of the hotel about 8 a.m., heading south to see what there was to see! R took some pictures of the hotel – an outside front view, followed by pictures in the 3-story lobby.
Our first stop was at the West Thumb geyser area, where we saw more thermal activity right next to Lake Yellowstone, including one geyser that makes it home actually within the lake! Apparently in years gone by, the thing to do was to catch your fish, and then cook it in the geyser, all without removing the fish from the hook! Lovely area; beautiful lake!
From West Thumb we followed the lake around, to the Lake Yellowstone Hotel. It is painted an incongruous yellow and white, which did nothing at all for Robert, but I thought it was quite nice! We walked through the lobby and took some pictures of the ornamentation – really lovely; I’d like to stay there some time!
Moving on from the hotel, we passed several places where it was actual mud bubbling up, rather than water – but still as hot, like boiling! Not nearly as attractive as some of the other geysers, though! From there we reached the Falls of the Yellowstone, upper and lower. Last summer when we were here we actually walked DOWN something like 400+ steps to see it – which of course meant that we had to walk UP on the return trip! UGH! This time we played it safe – overlooks only, as my knee is still playing up somewhat! Beautiful falls; racing river – would hate to be a canoe at the top, as once caught in that current, you’d next be heard of in Missouri! Oh well!
We stopped at Canyon Lodge for lunch – good salad bar, and then decided to push on north in the park to Mammoth Hot Springs. We actually passed two elk while driving, and managed to get a couple photographs – they were beautiful! We were able to check in early; very nice place, old wood building, comfortable rooms.
Took a short nap when we got here, and now are planning on driving into Gardiner, MT to see if we can find any internet access! So, hopefully this will get posted tonight!
Lots of love; more later!
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