OK, friends, you know the drill.
We do the 5-at-10, Mondays-through-Fridays, come rain of shine. Come vacation or sickness. Come snow days – both real and the Hamilton County version – and hangover days. (Side note: We spoke to the principal of Gardiner High School – go Bruins – in Gardiner, Mont., and you want to know how many snow days they have had in his four years there? Bagel. Yep. Blutarsky’s grade-point average of Zero point Zero. They also, because of weather, attention, travel and high school kids working, go four days a week, staying a little longer – all their kids go 7:50 to 4 – and going into June.)
Anyhoo, The 5-at-10 presses on, and since we’re closing in on 2,000 consecutive if these things, so it’s not like we can stop now.
As most of you know the by now 5-at-10 clan is out west – we have moved on from the Grand Tetons (and no Stewwie, it has nothing to do with Bill Clinton or who he may or may not have had dinner with). We’ve also now moved on from the North end of the park that included a long trek around Old Faithful, a trip to the Grand Prismatic Spring, two nights in a teepee in Gardiner, Mont., and an awesome, Awesome, AWESOME white-water rafting trip in the pouring rain down the Yellowstone River. Great times.
We are in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone as this awesome trip winds down.