West Yellowstone, MT

So we had a big trip planned a couple of weekends ago to go down to Phoenix and see Cassidy's family and some Spring Training baseball, but it didn't work out. We were worried about the 10 hour drive down and how well Scout would do so we decided to fly down on a couple of my Mom's buddy passes. I guess it was a pretty busy weekend in Arizona because we couldn't get on a flight for anything. Both Phoenix and Tucson were full, there were a couple of times when one of us would have been able to go, but with how full the flights were we didn't want to take a chance of having one of us there without the other.

We spent all day in the airport and weren't able to get on a flight. We thought about trying again the next day, but weren't to optimistic considering the day we just had so we decided to just bag the whole trip. Cass was disappointed because her family was going out there to meet us and we wouldn't be able to see them and I was bummed because for the first time the Dodgers were in Arizona instead of Florida and they had just signed Manny and I wasn't going to be able to see them.

I had already taken the time off of work and we were in the vacation mood so we decided to take a shorter three hour drive and head to Idaho and we had a lot of fun. It was a different vacation than we were planning on and we got snow instead of the warm sunny weather we were looking forward to in Arizona but it was still a great trip. We were able to see and hang out with an old mission buddy Scott and Katie Ulrich and their family. They made us dinner and we watched some March Madness and had a great time. We then were able to spend some time with my parents before heading to West Yellowstone, Montana for a few days.

My parents have a time share up there so we had a lot of fun hanging out in the room, watching movies, swimming, waking up at 3:00 AM when the fire alarm went off and trying to keep Scout happy. Yellowstone was still closed for the winter and it was freezing cold out side so we weren't able to go into the park, but we had a lot of fun. We even saw some Moose on our way home.

All in all it was a great trip, a little different than we had been planning and I told Cass I would make it up to her, but still it was a great trip.


Me with my future pet.


Cass with the Moose we saw.


Scouter enjoying the view from the front seat.