Mornin' y'all! Guess what? We spent last week up at Yellowstone National Park! I set up all my blog posts before we left : ) Our trip was AMAZING and I'll share a few pics at the bottom of this post if you're interested, but our Yellowstone trip also factored into my card for today:
Time Out Challenges wants a card featuring a favorite (or favourite, if you're fancy) beverage, so I had to make one to coordinate with the tin of huckleberry tea I bought while we were at Yellowstone. I'm actually sipping my first cup of this as I type; it reminds me a lot of Republic of Tea's blackberry sage flavor. Anyway, here's the challenge graphic:
Supplies, all SU!
Stamps: Tea Shoppe
Ink: Gorgeous Grape, Garden Green
Paper: Gorgeous Grape, Thick Basic White, Hydrangea Hill DSP, Garden Green DSP
Accessories: Stylish Shapes dies, Perennial Postage dies, Dimensionals, Pearls of Beauty
Keep on scrolling if you want to see a few pictures from our trip. Not a lot, just some from the first couple of days.
I had to get this tea towel (I like to hang a towel on my oven door) to match the huckleberry tea, and I also got huckleberry honey and jam which I haven't tried yet.
We left out super early last Sunday morning and drove to a little town in Wyoming whose name I don't remember, but on the way in the middle of nowhere (like 40 miles from the nearest gas station middle of nowhere) I found a used book store! And they had lots of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books, plus a stack of Hank the Cowdog books for Ryan!
We had dinner at a place called Nana's Bowling and Bakery, and we did indeed go bowling and buy some cookies the size of Ryan's face. Plus Ryan got to ride a mechanical bull.
On Memorial Day, we drove in to Grand Teton National Park and isn't this GORGEOUS. I did nothing to edit this picture other than shrink it down a bit to post on the blog.
We took a boat across Jenny Lake, then hiked about a bazillion miles back to where we started. Late in the afternoon, we drove further north into Yellowstone.
And we saw elk! With teefers!
And here's a shaggy buffalo for you, which Ryan insists is a bison but I will say buffalo because that was my high school mascot. We were less than 15 minutes away from our hotel when we had the coolest thing happen:
This grizzly bear just popped out of the woods next to the road, less than twenty yards from us! It's the only grizzly we saw during our time in Yellowstone but I never imagined we'd be this close (we were safely in the car). I will be going through more of our pics today so I'll share just a few highlights this week, but for now, I need to get Ryan sunscreened up so he can go to his first day of farm camp. Cheers!
