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Adventures by Disney Quest for the West: Day 4

Posted on June 22, 2011February 21, 2022
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Today was sort of an easy day with some down time and guided touring.  We  woke up and had breakfast in the Obsidian Dining Room at the Snow Lodge (it was  fine, although I really missed the Wort Hotel’s oatmeal), and met our group for  a walking tour of the Old Faithful area.  Disney provided a guide for us,  Rose, who was a former middle school teacher.
We started at Old Faithful, and saw the geyser, and Rose walked us around the  perimeter of the area pointing out the various thermal features of  Yellowstone.  (For the record there are geysers, fumeroles, hot springs and  mud pots.)  Without going into a lot of details, we learned how to tell  whether or not a hot spring was really hot, or not so hot, based on the  colors.  There’s also a lot of interesting things going on within the  thermal feature itself such as the silica and bacteria.  I found the whole experience interesting and educational.  Prior to this trip I had absolutely no idea what was going on in Yellowstone National Park.
Old  Faithful Geyser Eruption
Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone National Park
After our tour we had a short break and a ‘picnic’ lunch in the lodge  area.  It wasn’t much of a picnic because of the cool weather, but we had  plenty of seating in the atrium and lobby area.  Then we had another break  to shop and had to meet back in the lobby area for a tour of the Fountain Paint  Pots and hopefully another thermal area if the bus could get in.
We boarded our bus for the Fountain Paint Pots, which are mud pots.  A mud  pot is basically a thick soupy mud which is hot.  To me it looked like a cream  soup that was at a rolling boil.  Anyways, it was pretty interesting to walk around this area.   Upon the circuit in the mud pot area we headed to the largest hot spring in  Yellowstone, Grand Prismatic Spring–providing we could get the motor coach  parked.  Fortunately we had cooperation from another coach driver, and our  bus sneaked into a parking spot.  (Apparently this was a miracle, because  this area was just packed full of cars.)
The Grand Prismatic Spring is a huge area, and I didn’t take any pictures  because the only thing that would come out would be the steam rising from the  thermal features of the area.  Rose walked us around here too, and  explained what we were seeing–which was a lot.  Its really difficult to put this experience into words!
Bison outside of the Old Faithful Inn
Bison outside of the Old Faithful  Inn

Dinner this night was on our  own, and most of us were heading to the Old Faithful Inn, which is the one which  inspired features of Wilderness Lodge at Disney.  The food was fine, which was better than what some of our fellow guests experienced, and we  were out of there in about an hour.  Then back to the room for some emails  and bed at 10pm.  Tomorrow morning we’re on our way to Brooks Lake Lodge  which is higher in the mountains, and luggage has to be ready at 7:15am.

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