The Cinnamon Roll Chronicles

Daniel has always wanted to see a game at Wrigley Field and since the traditional first anniversary gift is paper....I decided to buy him tickets to a game. We had amazing seats to watch the Cubs take on the Pirates. I was pretty impressed with our seats considering we had no idea what was considered good when buying them. The were directly behind home plate and in the shade. I really like the scoreboard at Wrigley because there are people actually inside changing the score. After singing take me out to the ball game in the 7th inning, we left. We wanted to avoid some of the traffic and still have time to see some of Chicago. I spent a considerable amount of time on the drive to Chicago researching pizza places. Apparently there are two big time pizza joints in Chicago Lou Malnati's and Giordano's. everything a read said the Lou Malnati's was the best. So we went....okay....nothing special....next time I will try the other place. After pizza we walked down Michigan Avenue a...

Yesterday we spent ten hours in the car. We drove from Grand Tetons all the way to Mount Rushmore. We did stop along the way to see Devil's Tower. Devil's Tower was quite impressive. But Mount Rushmore was pretty amazing. We were lucky enough to view it during the day and at night. Today we drove for 12 hours all the way across South Dakota and Minnesota, into Wisconsin. My was that quite the drive. If you are Facebook friends with me, you could probably start to tell that I was getting a little stir crazy from being in the car for so long.  We are forever grateful to Claire, Chris, Mark, and Mary Glen for letting us stay with them tonight! It's great to have family in different states! Now tomorrow on to Chicago to celebrate our one year anniversary (a week early). Hopefully we will still be married by the time we make it home Monday ;)

Yesterday we got to sleep in a little. But once we got up were off hiking.  Cascade Cayon had been described to us as the Disney World of the Grand Tetons, and boy were they right. We took a boat across Jenny Lake to start the hike.  It was half a mile to Hidden Falls and I swear I have never seen some many people in my entire life on a trail.  It was crazy. You couldn't even enjoy the falls because of all the people.  From there it was half a mile to Inspiration Point. We was basically a straight up rock climb.  After that you could hike further into the canyon, and the people def started to thin out,  we ended up hiking about six miles total today, which for those of you that know me know is a huge deal. I have never hiked that far ever before, but we did get to see another Moose on the trail.  Today was our last day in the Tetons, and I must say I have enjoyed it here much more than I did Yellowstone.  Could be because it is warmer (almost 80 t...

Yesterday we spent the day in Jackson, WY. Once we got to Jackson we drove 45 mins to swim in Granite Hot Springs.  Then we walked around Jackson.  We missed lunchtime at the Million Dollar Cowboy bar, but Daniel still had a buffalo burger for dinner.  We actually started the day hiking to Heron Pond in the Tetons.....and Daniel finally saw a MOOSE!!  

Today was just spent driving from Yellowstone down to the Grand Tetons. The we did a driving tour of the Tetons to hit most the major sites. Still on the lookout for a Moose....but guess what???? I finally got WIFI. Thank you Grand Tetons for believing in WIFI. So here are some pics....

Since my phone and google are still not meshing then I still can't post pics. So I figured I would blog about two days at once. I promise as soon as I get good service or wifi that I will post pics. Yesterday we hiked to Cascade Lake. It was a total of five miles round trip. We survived the wilderness of Yellowstone without buying bear spray. Thanks Stacie and Nathan from saving us from making that wasted purchase. However there have apparently been a lot of grizzly spotting a since we have been here but we have yet to see a grizzly or a moose. A park ranger guaranteed Daniel we would see a moose in the Tetons. Also yesterday we saw the Artists Paintpots. Today we spent visiting the National Park Ranger Museum and the Fishing Bridge Area. In my opinion you could see everything you wanted to see in Yellowstone in about three days. In exchange for a nap today I agreed to go to a 9:30 ranger program on Buffalo. Did a mention the program is outside and the high here today was 49. Oh ...

Saturday we spent the day walking around the Geysers and watching Old Faithful. I most say I was pretty impressed with Old Faithful but the other geysers were pretty cool too. We also spent some time in Old Faithful Inn. Daniel is convinced that when we bring our Child back to Yellowstone that we will stay in Old Faithful Lodge. By the way if you ever come to Yellowstone make sure to bring a pair of binoculars. People won't tell you what they are looking at if you don't have a pair. Still cannot get photos to post. I'll keep trying.

Service in the park is spotty and there def isn't any wifi. So posts will be sporadic for the next week or so. We are officially half way through the trip. We spent yesterday driving from the north end of the park to our campsite. The high was 43. Needless to say I was pretty miserable. According to Daniel I was very whiny yesterday. But wouldn't you be too if you slept in a tent in 29 degree weather? It has snowed on us three days in a row. Seriously snow on May 31st?  Anyway we survived the day. We were able to see Mammoth Hot Springs, the petrified tree, and tower falls. Still no Moose, but plenty of buffalo. Sorry no pics tonight my phone and blogger are not getting along well. Hopefully I can post some tomorrow.