Day 6, 7, and 8 Yellowstone via Powell, Wy

We spent our 6th afternoon and night in Powell, WY, with our good friends, Marty and Cynthia Garhart.  Spent the evening at the gallery hop in Powell.  Marty, a fine artist and retired art professor at Kenyon College, was instrumental in developing Plaza Diane.  A million dollar grant aided in converting a filling station into a beautiful art gallery and a plaza for outside art activities.  Quite impressive.

We also spent our 7th day and night with the Garharts.  Began with a wonderful scrambled egg breakfast compliments of Chef Marty.  Spent the rest of the morning at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center just outside Powell.  12,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during WWII on the ground where this new museum now stands.  Very sobering.  Went to Cody, Wy for lunch.  Also visited the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum.  We explored the Cody and the fine arts sections.  So much more to see at this wonderful museum on another visit.

That evening we went to October Fest in Red Lodge, Montana.  Later strolled the streets of Red Lodge, a beautiful little western ski town.

Day 8 began with Chef Marty's oatmeal pancakes (yum).  With a hearty breakfast in our tummies, we set off for Yellowstone.  Old Faithful greeted us with an eruption minutes after our arrival.  Next we began our search for lodging in West Yellowstone.  Every hotel we stopped at had no vacancies.  I stopped in at Three Bear Lodge, an impressive establishment.  They had only suites left at fairly substantial prices.  At our next stop I entered the door of the hotel just after another gentlemen.  No vacancies!  I proposed to him that we share a suite at Three Bear Lodge.  We ended up enriched by the friendship of our suite mates, Joan and George, retired Dean of Students at a community college in Salem, Oregon, and children's services social worker, respectively.

 Top photo:  Marty and Cynthia; Bottom Photo:  Marty in his studio

Signing off until tomorrow, Bill and Marsha