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Yep, Beautiful weather, again. The only moisture to be seen was what the RV parks sprinkler system had deposited on the side of our trailer through the overnight hours.

I planned on being at the garage bright and early with the hope that they could get started on the truck ASAP and hopefully (if their estimate held true) have us back on the road by noon-ish. I dropped it off, and walked back to the RV park which was actually only about 10 minutes away.

Since we were going to be stranded in town for at least the first half of the day we decided to make the best of it. We registered the kids at the “Junior Smokejumper” program in town (which was free with donations accepted) and me and Christie took the opportunity to have a bit of alone time. We checked out many of the small shops, bought a few things, and then wandered some more. I decided to take in the Yellowstone museum in town (Christie sat it out, opting to curl up in the sun and read instead) and was quickly pleased that it was not only priced reasonably, but actually turned out to be extremely interesting, at least from my perspective. It was kind of nice to not have the kids dragging me along with the usual “Can we leave now? This is boring!” situation.

With the kids still occupied me and Christie ducked into the only Chinese restaurant in town and treated ourselves to what turned out to be a scrumptious meal.

The kids called us on the FRS radios to let us know that they were done just as we were finishing up lunch, so we trekked back the few blocks to pick them up - turns out they’d had a great time and enjoyed the program a great deal.

I decided to run over to check on the truck (everything is only a few blocks away in this little town!) and was dissapointed to see that despite it being noon, they hadn’t even touched it. Ugh. The more I hung around and inquired, the more it became obvious to me that we weren’t going to be seeing the truck back much before 5PM, if at all today.

Sure enough, I called at 4PM and they were having nothing but problems repairing the issue and they said that we could come and get it in the morning.

With no other option we simply hung around town for the rest of the day. There was plenty of neat little shops and such that kept us occupied, and then late in the day Christie and the kids decided to take-in the local Grizzly and Wolf interpretive center. With the extreme lethargy still upon me I opted out, deciding instead to hang out at the trailer and try to get some sleep. Of course, despite my best effort (and seeming exhaustion) I couldn’t sleep, simply tossing and turning in bed instead. I decided to make myself useful and got up to make dinner instead.

With West Yellowstone being small, as mentioned, one advantage was that our FRS walkie-talkie radios worked effectively to and from just about anywhere in town - we were always able to touch base at the press of a button, which is exactly what I did when dinner was ready.

We chowed down and the kids took off the play while me and Christie flaked out. I was still utterly exhausted and took the opportunity to head to bed shortly after 9PM.

This time, I got to sleep.

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