These past few days have been amazing! We were supposed to get up at 4:00am to fly out Tuesday but I was up at 3 just because I was so excited. Portland airport was very quiet that early in the morning and we had a quick hour and a half flight. At New York airport, that was a different story! The airport was very busy and we were starving with only 40 minutes to catch our plane. I stood in line to get some food and Barrett was at our gate. He came back saying the plane had already boarded and it was time to go! We told the cooks to cancel our order because we had to get on the plane and they said wait one second it’s ready. Another 5 minutes go by and we are both getting extremely impatient and I said we are leaving. The cook said if we go wait at the gate they can bring us our food. So we left and didn’t wait at the gate. We almost reached the plane when I heard a lady yelling “your food!!”. I ran back up and grabbed the food. I was in such relief that I finally got to eat! This flight was very long, almost 4 hours but it was nothing compared to our 8 hour Hawaii flight. We were antsy and ready to get off. After we landed in Colorado and collected our luggage, we got on a shuttle to thrifty, our car rental. That was a disaster. We did not even think about all the extra charges, taxes and insurance. We were expecting it to be around $200 when it was actually around $1400!! So we ran into a problem because all our cards had $1000 limits. I immediately called my mom at the bank to see if she could raise Barrett’s limit. It wasn’t working because there is a block on all cards in certain states and Colorado was one of them. After two hours we found a solution. We only paid for some of the days to bring it down to $880 and then used my credit card. So we will have to call to charge it again later for the rest of the total. I still have yet to see the charge on my statement online so I can pay it off. We were supposed to get a Chevy Tahoe and they said they didn’t have any available and offered a Nissan. We went to look at it and were unhappy with it because we wanted to be able to sleep in it. Then he said how about a minivan. So we check that out and it was perfect! Everything folded down flat so we could lay our mattresses out and sleep comfortably. We set off to Walmart to get food, water, and other supplies. After that we starting driving north. At first the ride was very scenic because we were driving through the Rockies. It was amazing!
We took a very curvy route that nobody was on so that was nice! After that, it was flat…forever! There would be a tiny town every 50 miles. That day we drove 375 miles. We stopped to get some dinner at penny’s diner and started to get sleepy so we stopped at the roadway inn pronghorn lodge. It was amazing because I wanted a shower so bad! The next morning we woke up, had breakfast and set off again. This time we drove through grand Teton national park and Yellowstone national park. The grand Tetons were huge and covered with snow. I loved every minute of the drive!
Yellowstone was amazing also! We drove for a while before we saw anything.
We were really hoping to see more wildlife but
we saw some Bulls and deer.
We got to old faithful just in time because it was about to erupt. That was beautiful!
We stopped in the last city to try to get some food but everything was closed because it’s so late in the season. We found a little souvenir shop and picked up a few things. When we left Yellowstone we came to Gardiner, Montana and got some dinner and headed north for glacier national park. We stopped in Livingston, Montana at a super 8. Yesterday we drove 306 miles. We did a lot of stopping in Yellowstone (including a nap)! Today we hope to make it to glacier national park!
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