big sky country

We got to the Tetons and I nearly died.

Our backcountry hike was, as the ranger warned, "up up up up up." And in the altitude, I could hardly breathe. Plus then there were the fields of snow, the rain, the hail, the hard to find campsite (we set up and then found the place where we were actually supposed to set up). So you'll see some pictures of that. Then there will be a few Yellowstone pics, but Yellowstone was kind of one-note (in the educational center, every display repeated "everything you see is the result of geo-thermal activity.") There was the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Old Faithful, and some geothermal springs with bright colored steam.

You can play Where's Waldo and find Jack carrying the tent in one of these pictures.

We're reading 2 Corinthians in the morning and The River Why at night. I'm reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, and Jack is reading a book of Lester Bang's collected essays/articles on rock and roll.

And today we saw (and thoroughly enjoyed) Nancy Drew. Oh, to be a girl sleuth.