{"id":1688,"date":"2011-06-22T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_travel_adventures\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2022-02-21T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T17:43:55","slug":"adventures-by-disney-quest-for-the-west-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/adventures-by-disney-quest-for-the-west-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures by Disney Quest for the West: Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today was sort of an easy day with some down time and guided touring.\u00a0 We\u00a0 woke up and had breakfast in the Obsidian Dining Room at the Snow Lodge (it was\u00a0 fine, although I really missed the Wort Hotel’s oatmeal), and met our group for\u00a0 a walking tour of the Old Faithful area.\u00a0 Disney provided a guide for us,\u00a0 Rose, who was a former middle school teacher.<\/div>\n
We started at Old Faithful, and saw the geyser, and Rose walked us around the\u00a0 perimeter of the area pointing out the various thermal features of\u00a0 Yellowstone.\u00a0 (For the record there are geysers, fumeroles, hot springs and\u00a0 mud pots.)\u00a0 Without going into a lot of details, we learned how to tell\u00a0 whether or not a hot spring was really hot, or not so hot, based on the\u00a0 colors.\u00a0 There’s also a lot of interesting things going on within the\u00a0 thermal feature itself such as the silica and bacteria.\u00a0 I found the whole experience interesting and educational.\u00a0 Prior to this trip I had absolutely no idea what was going on in Yellowstone National Park.<\/div>\n
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Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone National Park<\/strong><\/div>\n
After our tour we had a short break and a ‘picnic’ lunch in the lodge\u00a0 area.\u00a0 It wasn’t much of a picnic because of the cool weather, but we had\u00a0 plenty of seating in the atrium and lobby area.\u00a0 Then we had another break\u00a0 to shop and had to meet back in the lobby area for a tour of the Fountain Paint\u00a0 Pots and hopefully another thermal area if the bus could get in.<\/div>\n
We boarded our bus for the Fountain Paint Pots, which are mud pots.\u00a0 A mud\u00a0 pot is basically a thick soupy mud which is hot.\u00a0 To me it looked like a cream\u00a0 soup that was at a rolling boil.\u00a0 Anyways, it was pretty interesting to walk around this area.\u00a0\u00a0 Upon the circuit in the mud pot area we headed to the largest hot spring in\u00a0 Yellowstone, Grand Prismatic Spring–providing we could get the motor coach\u00a0 parked.\u00a0 Fortunately we had cooperation from another coach driver, and our\u00a0 bus sneaked into a parking spot.\u00a0 (Apparently this was a miracle, because\u00a0 this area was just packed full of cars.)<\/div>\n
The Grand Prismatic Spring is a huge area, and I didn’t take any pictures\u00a0 because the only thing that would come out would be the steam rising from the\u00a0 thermal features of the area.\u00a0 Rose walked us around here too, and\u00a0 explained what we were seeing–which was a lot.\u00a0 Its really difficult to put this experience into words!<\/div>\n
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Bison outside of the Old Faithful\u00a0 Inn<\/strong><\/div>\n

\n<\/strong>Dinner this night was on our\u00a0 own, and most of us were heading to the Old Faithful Inn, which is the one which\u00a0 inspired features of Wilderness Lodge at Disney.\u00a0 The food was fine, which was better than what some of our fellow guests experienced, and we\u00a0 were out of there in about an hour.\u00a0 Then back to the room for some emails\u00a0 and bed at 10pm.\u00a0 Tomorrow morning we’re on our way to Brooks Lake Lodge\u00a0 which is higher in the mountains, and luggage has to be ready at 7:15am.<\/div>\n

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