We've had a busy week, but have had a lot of fun, too. Our traffic flow through the store does not compare to the traffic jams we have outside the store. The road construction is really eating into our sales in the store. Sometimes the traffic is lined up for 20-40 minutes and when they finally start to move, most people are ready to go on to bigger and better sights in the park. Can't say that I blame them....if they come in the store they stand the chance of having to wait another 20-40 minutes to continue on through more construction. YUK!!!
Wednesday was our day off and we took two of the Taiwanese girls with us to some of the sights. They had hitch-hiked the day before to Canyon holding a sign that read "Employees of the Park". They were picked up by another park employee and after visiting with their friends at Canyon, they were fortunate enough to run into two of our employees who brought them back to Tower. Being unfamiliar with our country, they are unaware of the many dangers of hitchhiking ----they also think the bison are cute and sweet and we have had to school them about the dangers of the animals, too.
We took them back to Canyon. We had to mail some things and they had not seen all of the interesting spots there. We took them to the Visitor's Center and then to Artist Point for them to view the Lower Falls. The Lower Falls is probably the single most photographed area in Yellowstone other than Old Faithful. From there we drove to Lake. Clara, one of the girls said she had always dreamed of having a picnic on the lake. So we took our lunches, found a picnic table and had a picnic. Clara said her dream had come true. That was a highlight of our day...making her dream come true. From there we drove to Old Faithful and only had to wait 15 minutes before the geyser went off. It was a pretty big eruption and the girls got lots of pictures. Phoebe, our other little friend gets car sick so she slept a lot during our travels from each destination to another. They are lovely ladies - each 22 years old - and are so thankful and respectful of anything anyone does for them. They enjoyed the lake more than anything - the picnic, the view and of course getting their feet wet.
We rested the day after our adventures with the girls. We had planned to go fishing but were too tired. We are saving the fishing for a full day off when we can get up early and make a day of it. Our schedule has been changed again. We have our normal Wednesday and Thursday off and will work Noon-6:30 the rest of this schedule then changes over to the early schedule (7-2:30pm) for a week. Everyone's hours have been cut back 1 hour. Seems we are all working a 6 1/2 hour schedule now. There is still trouble brewing in the kitchen - personality conflicts.
Other than the beautiful buck deer we saw during the chapel services on Sunday, our animal viewing has been limited to Bison and one lone coyote.
Artist Point in the Grang Canyon of Yellowstone
Our sweet friends at Artist Point
The young bison calves are so sweet and never wander far from mother's side.
A very green Hayden Valley this year.
Or new friend Clara from Taiwan. Sweet girl and very confident. She works at the Fountain.
This is Phoebe. She is not big as a minute and loves everything. Happy little lady.
This is a shot of the girls coming back up from the lake. They are both beautiful young women.
Beautiful Old Faithful.
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