No One Left Inside

Gina asked that I write tonight's post about our trip to Yellowstone......so here goes.....

We started off the morning really early.  We woke up at 5, got ready and met our driver, Dallas (yes that is his name) downstairs.  We loaded the van, accompanied by another family from Houston.  Small world eh?

After about an hour of driving, we ended up at the Heart Six Ranch near Yellowstone.  We suited up with snowmobile attire (helmets, snow bibs, snow boots), signed waivers, and then was treated to a great breakfast.

Then we loaded the van again and we were off to Yellowstone National Park.  Once we made it through the gates, our guide took us to our snowmobiles for a quick tutorial.  An important part of this lesson was "it' really hard to turn one of these over", as he shifted his weight back and forth trying to tilt it over.  Remember this, I'll come back to it in a minute.

The next important thing was to not turn the key completely to the off position after we stop.  Not because it would fall out, but that ravens would come along and steal the key!!  He said that when they were renovating a building in Y'stone, they found a bucket worth of keys that ravens had collected over the years!

We jumped on our snowmobiles, Kale with me, Reid with my brother-in-law Ernest, who was going to be last in line.  We all headed out, rounded our first corners and started down the road.  Our guide started off slow, then looked back to see that one of our snowmobiles hadn't made it around the corner yet.  So, we stayed put while our guide circled back to check on things.

Several minutes passed and then they both show up.  We spent the rest of the day traveling 80 miles down snow covered roads, stopping at the sites along the way.

Okay, now back to that tutorial.  At our first stop I learned that when Ernest was taking the first turn, he somehow managed to turn the snowmobile over on it's side.  He and Reid were thrown off.  Luckily, both are okay.  Reid has a small shiner on his right cheek.  Hmm.....I think our guide might have to change his tutorial speech.

We'll post some pics and videos in the next post....stay tuned.

Hey it's Gina now....We are having some technical difficulties with the downloading but promise to post pictures and more of the adventure in the next post or two.  We just really want to keep you guessing. Ha.  I will also post a picture of Reid's lovely knot/shiner!!!

Talk to you tomorrow!!!

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