Thursday after school the girls and I headed to Rexburg. We had a bit of a late start and didn't arrive till about 9:30pm. I made the choice not to pick Greg up at the airport but to have him Uber to the hotel. That left the girls about 30 minutes to see Kate's place and chat with her roomies.
At which point I got a phone call...Andrew separated his shoulder playing soccer and it was hurting way more than usual when that happens (this is time 4 or 5). Natali was at the game so she took him to the urgent care -except it seems to have been the ER (not looking forward to those bills).
He got some drugs, a sling, and an order for an MRI and PT. Good thing he was planning to take it easy this weekend driving around Yellowstone looking for animals and watching conference.
The next morning Kate met us for breakfast and it was decided that Lily would stay behind with her and hitch a ride with the BYU Provo kids on their way through Rexburg. Kate chose to skip the Yellowstone stuff and just hang with her friends (I think she likes college).
The Provo kids left after Friday classes and got to Gardiner a little bit before Greg, Emily and I.
Meanwhile, Emily Greg and I entered the park for free (thank you government shut down 🤦) and enjoyed a nice grizzly spotting,
and a second grizzly (this photo was taken from my phone, that is how close it was).
The other kids made Emily jealous by spotting this great grey owl.
We also saw this black bear as we exited Lamar Valley and met up with the other kids in time for the BYU game.
We left at 6 am the next morning and found the same black bear,
lots of elk, and a far off grizzly.
We were back in time for the kids to sleep through most of the first session of conference (6 am wake up not so good for watching conference). They did stay up long enough to learn that a new prophet wouldn't be sustained at that meeting since Pres. Nelson had only passed away a week previous to the conference.
Between sessions the kids went out to mammoth and hiked around and found a black bear and cubs, I stayed home to nap and bathe.
On the way in for the night we lucked out seeing a pack of wolves running across the hills near Gardiner, it was through a scope or binoculars for all of us but there were more than 10 wolves so still really cool. And sometime in all the crazy we wished Mack and Nani a happy birthday!
And just when we were going to turn the car around and head back the car in front of us stopped for bison. While waiting we looked around and Andrew spotted this lovely red fox as well as a bull moose off in the distance.
It was fun to watch the fox running, stalking and just hanging out. It was a great morning.
More sleep kids during the Sunday morning session though.
After the morning session the Provo kids hit the road. The rest of us were scheduled to stay another night but in Lily and I were ready to head home and Greg and Emily decided that would be okay but Greg wanted to go the long way through Grand Teton. So we pack up quick and hit the road managing to drive for 3 or 4 hours in a blizzard made for not such great views but some beautiful landscapes when the sky cleared.
The Provo kids hit snow as well and stopped to show Miguel some of the geysers.
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