Fri, Jan 21
01.21.05
It was foggy this morning in Idaho Falls!!! The fog lifted as we headed to the Bistro (same restaurant as last night). When Brenda learned we were too late for breakfast food she said she would prefer to have pancakes and eggs instead of “lunch” food. Harlan’s hunger prevailed and we stayed there, where Brenda was subsequently very happy with the homemade chicken noodle soup and some of Harlan’s open-faced roast beef sandwich and his salad, and her “taste” of the pumpkin cream pie for desert left almost half for Harlan. We liked the tee-shirts they had, but the only remaining sizes were S & M (no jokes…), so no dice.
We then headed to Jackson, Wyoming around 1:00pm. Beautiful drive through the mountains. We arrived at Old Faithful Snowmobile Tours around 3:00 and got fitted with jackets, leggings, shoes, helmets (yes, helmets!!!!), gloves and face coverings for the 4 day snowmobile trip tomorrow. We were told to arrive tomorrow fully dressed with only a duffle bag for a ‘carryon’ on the snowmobile. We will not be taking the laptop which means no updates on this log until Jan 25th. The tour tomorrow includes all food, lodging, tour guides, our own individual snowmobile (Harlan and Brenda will NOT be on the same snowmobile!!!) Yeehaa!!! We are hoping to get great pictures of it all.
We checked into the Quality Inn in Jackson and also booked rooms here for Jan 25th and 26th.
Brenda ate leftovers from last night for dinner this evening and Harlan had a Mountain Mike’s Gyro sandwich. They also had nice tee-shirts, and we’ll probably get some when we get back in town.
We also got 2 rolls of 35mm film developled. One roll contained the last pictures from Zion and Grafton (the ghost town where they filmed Butch and Sundance), plus some from Sun Valley this trip, and the other roll contained shots from the other day when we travelled around Craters of the Moon.
The folks at the photo shop said I should only use the polarizing filter in summer, and that Kodak film is better used on the east coast, where there are more browns and yellows. Out west, they recommended Agfa, Konica, and Fuji film.
Oh, we did laundry tonight! 6am wakeup. ugh.