The Wild West Day 7

An Adventures by Disney Trip to Wyoming

July 15, 2006

Today was pretty much the same as yesterday. Breakfast was the same buffet food and made to order eggs, pancakes and waffles.

Regan and Kelsie went on their horseback rides on the same horses as they had the day before. I took a fly fishing lesson. Kevin was my instructor and it was awesome. That is the first time I had fly fished and Kevin was very patient with me and pointed out what I was doing right and wrong. I caught three fish that morning. Nikki just took it easy for the morning, watching the girls leave on their horse ride, watching me fish and also watching Christy catch her first fish EVER.

Others went fly fishing on the river, hiking, horseback riding or to the Spa. Around 11:30 we all congregated back in the lodge to socialize before lunch. Lunch was the same menu as the day before. I was a little late and when I got to the table everyone had ordered a Veggie wrap with added Turkey. It sounded good so I ordered the same thing. Nikki ordered a buffalo burger which she said was delicious.

After lunch we all went horseback riding again. It was like the day before, the kids went off on their ride first, then there was a group of adults who had been on the three previous rides who went on a different ride than Nikki, Christy and me. We went to Upper Jade Lake. A beautiful jade green lake that is in the mountains above jade lake. I rode Doodad again but Nikki was on Grunt. During the trail ride Cowboy Jim radioed our lead wrangler to check on Nikki (who had developed quite a relationship with Cowboy Jim). I overheard the conversation and passed it on to Nikki later that night. It really made her feel special that he was checking on her with Grunt.

We had a social hour again. Then dinner was from a menu. We ate with Tony, Kathy, Antoinette, Doug, Sue and Stephanie. We had our choice of salmon, beef tenderloin or a vegetarian dish I can't remember. Everyone at our table had the tenderloin. We had a salad before our main course. Chris and Christy offered to buy everyone a glass of wine or a beer and they came around and made a toast during dinner.

During dinner Christy also brought around the times that we would be departing the next day to go back to the Jackson Airport. Since Ray had left with the motor coach on Friday, we were going to go back in small groups either in a SUV or a van. Our departure time was 1:30, which made us, along with Stephanie and Aislyn the last to leave the lodge (even after Chris and Christy).

As our waitress was taking our dessert order she said "Oh, there's a bat" There was a bat flying around in the dining room. She calmly left to Adam and George who came in to catch the bat. Surprisingly enough nobody panicked. Dessert was strawberry shortcake.

Chris had been eating with the kids and they all left him to go play so we invited him to join us. Chris entertained us with stories of when he was a Yellowstone Park Ranger. Then Christy joined us for a little while. Finally they asked us to leave so they could get ready for a surprise. They asked us to come back to the dining room at 9:00 for our surprise.

I am not going to reveal what our surprise was but needless to say it was a perfect ending to an amazing trip. It was a very emotional evening. After the formal gathering we were all given our pin for the day and then went back into the main rooms of the lodge and visited together. Some of us had to leave as early as 6:30 in the morning so this would be our last time to see each other.

We visited until around midnight and then figured we should probably head to our cabin for bed. The girls wanted to stay up all night with all the kids but we decided that it wasn't a good idea to let the kids stay up all night.

We ended up walking back to our cabin with Tony and Kathy and then going to their cabin to see it and then Kathy walked back down to get Chris, Regan and Kelsie so we could all get our kids to bed.