Beartooth Highway with Gram

We got a wild hair on Memorial Day weekend and decided to drive Grandma Lyn up the Beartooth Highway. It's almost never warm on Memorial day weekend, and the highway usually isn't even open, so we took advantage of the sunshine and hit the road. Grandma was such a good sport!

We drove to Red Lodge and had a picnic lunch there along the creek just out of town.
Gram said, "Oh, this is so fun, you know? I just sit at home or take little drives around town. I never get to do stuff like this!" I was surprised because the kids were pretty crazy, but Gram just turned down her hearing aids and enjoyed the ride!

Heidi and Niles and me eating our lunch

Me and my Jamesy boy.

At the top of the pass

Niles at the lunch spot drinking fountain

James pumping a drink for Niles.

At the top of the pass we pulled over so the kids could sled on the glacier.
Here's Niles waiting his turn.

Heidi and her sled

Gram watched from the van (it was a little cold for her), and
I watched from the roadside with Baby Ammon

Addie sledding

Niles hiking up the hill

James and Heidi

Heidi heading downhill

James sledding

Daddy and his boys

The Beartooth!

We stopped in Cooke City to eat at The Beartooth Café,
owned by our friends the Dennistons in our ward.

Addie went in back to say hi to her friend Micki Denniston who was doing dishes.

The little Dennistons came out to see Ammon for the first time.
Niles, Me, James, Sidney, Riley, Curtis, and Heidi checking out Baby Ammon.
He was 2 weeks old that day.

Heidi, Sidney, Curtis, James, and Riley

Riley and Niles are buds!

The tiny bathroom at the cafe

Riley shared an appetizer of potato chips with Niles

Rich's delicious gyro

Heidi eating her sandwich

Yum! Niles loved his burger and apple juice.

Addie

We drove home through the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone Park, up though Mammoth to our house.
Gram was able to see Bison, Elk, and a moose up close for the first time on our drive.

What a beautiful day in our gorgeous neck of the woods!