Big Horn Mountains, Sibley Lake, Pompey's Pillar, Baby Okie

Okay, best part of today happened about 20 minutes ago. I actually went into a hotel with my Dad to see about a room price (usually I let him handle that), and the lady at the desk gave us a discounted room cause my Dad is OLD enough for AARP. Best part of the day = AARP discount. Still chuckling. We're in Livingstone, Montana tonight. We'll pick up bear spray in the morning and head into Yellowstone for a few days of camping before heading to the Grand Tetons. Dad has a birthday on Thursday, so we'll have to do something silly and fantastic that day. Does AARP give a bigger discount the older you get? I'll have to research.

Today was already a really fun day, even before AARP. We left Sheridan, Wyoming and headed up into the Big Horn Mountains.

It was beautiful. And cold. Quite a bit of snow was still up there. So, we had a snowball fight in the middle of the highway. If you look carefully, you can see a snowball being thrown at me in mid-air a little above my Dad's hand.

We stopped for a picnic and walk at Lake Sibley. These are some pictures of the river near there.





We climbed pretty high in elevation today - the highest posted sign we saw was 9430 feet. We were driving through snow and the clouds. Pretty neat. It was about 48 degrees atop the mountain, but a nice 75 down below. No rain at all today!


We headed to Pompey's Pillar late this afternoon to see where William Clark (or Lewis and Clark's expedition west) carved his name into a stone outcropping on the Yellowstone River.

Another pretty spot. Of course. While there, we were browsing through the gift shop, and a little stuffed animal prairie dog caught my eye. Lisa has a prairie dog that is bigger than the one I saw named Okie that she got on a trip out west 10 years ago. So, we bought/adopted the little prairie dog and named him Baby Okie. So far, Baby Okie and Sirhc are getting along very well. They are both little jokers, and you never know where they will pop up!