vacation re-cap day 3

Sorry to leave the 6 of you hanging like that. Yesterday Thomas and I went to the indoor bounce house place with some friends. Apparently he was quite worn out. When we laid down for a short nap before Mike got home, Thomas slept straight through the night until 8:30 this morning. Mike and I enjoyed a quiet, kid-free evening.

So, where were we? Day 3

Woke up, got breakfast, cleaned up, etc. Left the campsite around10:00. Again. I think Mike figured out that he needed to get over the whole "getting an early start" thing. Got in the car to head out for the day and found that, while it was fully functioning the day before, the Taurus had no air conditioning. It would only blow hot air. Fun! We sort of just blew it off, rolled the windows down and went on with our day. Some of the stuff we saw:

Sapphire Pool

Grand Prismatic Spring

Clepsydra Geyser

Firehole Falls

Lily pads in Isa Lake

We also managed to make it to the town outside the West entrance to Yellowstone, did some grocery shopping and tried to see if anyone could take a look at the car. No dice on the car. And while it was bearable in Yellowstone to drive without air conditioning, we knew our drive home would be miserable without it.

That night, after dinner, cleanup and getting Thomas in bed, Mike and I discussed our options. We finally settled on a plan to break camp in the morning, finish up Yellowstone a day early, drive that evening to Bozeman, spend the night & get the car looked at first thing in the morning. A deviation from the original plan, for sure, but one with pretty minimal impact.