Well, here it is Friday, and I still need to tell you about what's been happening since Sunday. When we awoke on Monday, it was yet another beautiful day. We had planned on an over 200 mile trip, but a couple of us we'nt quit up for it, so we all hung around West Yellowstone. They have a GREAT bear and wolf exhibit in town. They have taken about 10 Grizzly bears and 6 or so Wolfs that were all slated to be destroyed and have saved them. It is the Bear and Wolf Experience. A non-profit group that has built a very nice area for the bears and wolves to survive. Not quit the wild wild, but they do their best. Very nice exhibits inside the building and a ver nice movie theatre with some good documentaries. All of us spent half the morning there. When we got back to camp, we started looking at the calander and realized that we were slated to leave the next morning. We all thought we had another day there. We hurridly took the buggies and found a spot where we could get some nice clean pictures taken, as we had planned on getting T-shirts made with a transfer that had the 3 buggies on it. We did find a place, got some good pictures, picked out the one we wanted, and took it to the T-Shirt shop in town. We all picked out the T-shirt that we wanted, and the lady said to come back at 7pm. So we went and did some shopping (Cathy found a BEAUTIFUL cow hide at the local cow hide shop. She is going to use it to decorate their new house. We went and ate at a place called Bullwinkle's. Really good food and it was a good place to go to for our last evening in Yellowstone. We then went and picked up our shirts. All look good. Will try to post a picture when someone takes one. As far as I know, no one has taken any pictures the last 3 days, but if I find some, I'll post them.

Tuesday dawned beautiful as usual. We loaded everything up and headed toward Bozeman, MT with the planned stop at Missoula, MT for the night at Jim nad Mary's RV Park (we had reservations). When you leave West Yellowstone toward Bozeman, you run through one of the most beautiful canyons. It seems like you're dropping alltitude the whole way. The road started out by following a stream, but by the time you get outside of Bozeman it has turned into a raging river with lots of folks doing rafting trips. Other than the beautiful scenery, the trip was uneventful. We made it to Missoula, unloaded the buggies, and made the trip into town for dinner at the local Cracker Barrel. Diana and I were the only two that had eaten at one before, so the others were surprised at the gift shopping and the food. It was all good. Drove the buggies back to camp, poured a Wild Turkey and sat around and talked. Yet another good day.

Wednesday we got up and headed to Cabello's in Post Fall's, ID. There are these incredibly beautiful mountains going across the pan handle of ID. We need to go back for a weekend and check them out. Dennis, Cathey, Tony, and Laverne had been itching to go to Cabello's once they had heard there was a big one on our way to WA. Cabello's is a HUGH sporting goods store. They have EVERYTHING there for the sportsman. They even had a gun there that I wanted (50cal Smith and Wesson 5 shooter, cause it fits my hand). Everyone went nuts in there and came out with lots of stuff. The buggies are getting way to full from the stuff that's been bought. We decided to spend the night at one of the local Wal-Marts. Used the GPS to find one, and took off. It was right where the GPS said it would be. Setup camp for the night, did a bunch of shopping (mostly food), went back to the rigs, poured a Wild Turkey, and sat and yacked untill the sun went down. All in all, another good day.

Thursday morning we woke up to another bright blue sky. It was 185 miles to Prosser, WA, so we got on the road at 7am. Made it through the police infested city of Spokane (tons of them out during the commute traffic) and headed to the Tri-Cities. Just before Pasco on the left side of the road is a place called the Country Mercantile. We call it the Chocolate Factory. It's a place that has all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits and stuff, but it is also a really nice gift shop. But the REAL thing is that they have all kinds of CHOCOLATE things there. Lots of truffles and cherries and strawberries and almonds and everythign covered in chocolate. They also have great homemade salsas and chips and tamales and stuff. We spent an hour there looking and buying. We then took off and made it across the Columbia River. We had to stop and get our buggies registered for Cool Desert Nights (a local BIG car show). We did that, and then headed for Prosser. We made it to the Prosser Rest Area and dumped our motorhome tanks. Chris (Larry's wife) and kids showed up so we all ate lunch at McD's. Then we all took off to park our rigs. Tony, Lavern, Dennis and Cathy pulled their rigs up to Larry and Chris's place and got them set up, while we went back to our place. So here we are. It was Dennis and Cathy's 32 year (I think) anniversary yesterday, so we all went to the Olive Garden for dinner. Good food, good wine, and great company. It's been a blast so far.