It's beginning to look a lot like...SUMMER?!

Note: This was written on Monday, June 9. So read it like it is Monday, June 9. Could've updated it but somebody else can write about Glacier.

Proceed:
June 9, 2008.
We saw the sun yesterday! No joke, it actually stopped raining/snowing from 7 pm until we went to bed last night as the sun came out and graced us with a nice sunset in Yellowstone.

I haven't posted in awhile so I'm going to do a quick recap of things I wanted to talk about:
1. Thermopolis was awesome--great call by Rezzie. Home of the world's largest mineral hotspring, we took a much needed (albeit stanky) bath. I was expecting the place to be either a) trashy or b) very touristy. It was neither--very beautiful and low key.
2. The Tetons are grand.
--Timeout. We are driving in pouring rain right now and the sun is out. Gotta be a rainbow somewhere. Looking, looking, nothing.--
Anyway, great hikes, big mountains, lots of wildlife. Saw a moose and her 4 day old calf. Lots of antelope, elk, marmots.
3. Too much snow and cold weather. It is JUNE, dammit. We arrived in Yellowstone Saturday to a blizzard, froze our booties off waiting for freaking Old Faithful to launch. Could barely see it because of fog and snow. O-VER-RA-TED (clap-clap clap-clap-clap). Ha just kidding...but seriously it wasn't great. Should've known-- Marshall had seen it before and when we asked him what it was like and he goes "I don't want to influence you're opinion, you'll see for yourself." Translation: "It's a letdown." We set up camp in Madison and went to see Lower/Upper Falls near Canyon and saw Lower just fine (gorgeous view) but the snow picked back up and we couldn't see the necessary 15 yards to see Upper. Great.
4. WE. SAW. A. BEAR. So I'm content for our cross country trip. Mind you, I've been wanting to see a bear since we hit South Dakota and we have been told repeatedly that they were everywhere. Hell, there was one in our damn campsite like seven campers down in the Tetons. We went to find him and he was gone, although everyone else had seen him. Then we went on a hike in Yellowstone yesterday and the dude at the Visitor Center told us we were probably going to see one. And we didn't. So yesterday evening we were driving to West Yellowstone and boom, there it was. Grizzly. Cha-ching cha-ching. We saw another one this morning NO BIG DEAL.

We watched game 2 of the finals in a bar at West Yellowstone. It was a blowout for the most part which was fairly boring. Drew took the opportunity to play some video poker and he made BANK ($4.50). Marshall wasn't so lucky, losing 50 big ones (cents).
The game ended up being a close as the Lakers eliminated something like a 30 point deficit to make it a two point game. Down four with 20 seconds, who takes the big shot for LA? Sasha "Kobe" Vujacic. Yeah he missed. 2-0 Celts.

Yellowstone is beautiful, though. You need to spend like a week there because there's so much to do. I'll go back when the weather's better. And I'll bring fly fishing gear.

Well we are almost to Glacier. I heard it's going to be 80 and sunny, so pretty stoked about that. What was it really like? Stay tuned.

-Hon E. Bear

p.s. we are doing "secret journeymen" gifts for each other so we have been stealthily buying things ($20 limit). the exchange will be the evening of june 12.