06.29.09
on our way home
Avery says-I liked the museum. Things that were interesting were: dinosaurs, the old fashioned room [room covering daily life in different decades], and the treasure room. And I really liked the drive. It’s so pretty.
Amanda says- This morning we bid farewell to our temporary home outside of Glacier Park and headed to our permanent home in Winfield. Our drive followed the same route as on the way in. Only this time there was much more construction. When we stopped at a rest area in Bozeman, Avery and I saw an advertisement for the Museum of the Rockies. We convinced Lael that we had plenty of time, so off we went. We’re all glad we went . The museum is part of the university. For a working museum (you can see them cleaning fossils), there are fabulous displays. Some would find them too wordy, but I love reading informative, well-written displays.
After our museum break, we left the interstate and headed to Yellowstone. We made it to Gardiner, MT where we began the search for a room. After stopping at four hotels, I discovered that there were only five rooms left in town at the Comfort Inn. So we headed for the Comfort Inn. I stood in the lobby behind two other groups of people (who I had also been behind at other hotels). Luckily, one couple decided the room was too expensive and left. When my turn rolled around, I got the last room in town. There is no pool (Avery is disappointed) and no free breakfast (Lael is disappointed) and it cost $180 (Amanda is ticked! $180 and no pool or free breakfast? Capitalist swine.) Tomorrow we will do a hit and run on Yellowstone. I’m looking forward to it.
[ editor’s note — There is free breakfast. The literature in the room is out of date. There is no pool but there are two capacious hot-tubs. Or rather one hot-tub and one tepid-tub. The is also a pool table and a ping-pong table.
Mandy is not the only one complaining about the price. It was the number one conversation among the people walking the corridors. On the plus side, it’s 1/2 mile from the Roosevelt gate. ]