Round 7 and Yellowstone

Well Bonnie did have chemo on May 27. First we talked to the PA and her fingers were still numb from the previous chemo treatment. So he decided not to give her the Oxaliplatin drug in the chemo mix for that day in hopes that the neuropathy will subside. So her treatment was shorter by 1/2 hour, so we were out of there after 2 1/2 hours. We got home earlier because we did not run into rush hour traffic as well.

She has had more energy from the lighter treatment and even felt well enough to make a couple meals this week. But her fingers are still a little numb. So hopefully that will clear up in time. Nobody can get that drug for the full 12 treatments cause it can cause permanent neuropathy.

Now on to YELLOWSTONE!
We went up to West Yellowstone on May 16 and checked into the new beautiful WorldMark Resort and into our nice 2 bedroom, 2 bath, full kitchen unit. The weather was very nice the first 5 days, it got into the 70's, and snowed the last 2 days. The new resort does not have air conditioning and we were on the top, third floor. So it got nice and warm. One night it was 78 at 11pm and still 73 at 5 am. Even on the cold snowy days, our unit stayed warm, we didnt have to use the heater. I guess they have a circulation system that they were tweeking, but it sure didnt work for us.

We went out to breakfast Saturday morning and checked out the town a bit. We took it easy that day and made dinner for when the girls arrived that evening. We swam in the indoor pool and hot tub that night and went to my sister Karla's room for birthday cake after that. Her and Bart and their family came up for a couple days also. The next morning I went to church with Karla and Bart and I went back to our unit for breakfast. Then we took a nice drive around Hebgen lake and went down to check out Quake lake. We were disappointed the visitors center was closed but the extreme devastation was still very visible.

We went into Yellowstone on Monday and took one loop around the middle of the park and saw the grand canyon and the lower and upper falls. We went down to Yellowstone lake and headed toward the east gate. We had never gone that way before and we still hadn't seen any bears. Well about 3 miles down the road there was a mother grizzly walking along the shore with her 2 cute cubs. We must have watched them for at least a 1/2 hour. It was awesome. We checked out a few more sites and went back to the west side of the lake and come upon more cars stopped and got out to see a big grizzly mom nursing her 2 one year old cubs on the grass by the lake. That was neat too.

We had a marvelous time and saw many beautiful things and much wildlife and many marvels of Gods handiwork. We got to see 8 grizzlies and 5 black bears and they were very fun to watch and we spent a lot of time watching them. We saw Old Faithful, it was fun to watch all the steam the snow caused when it erupted, and the beautiful Inn. We need to stay there one day. We got over 500 pictures and some great video also. On the way home we saw some dear friends and went to lunch with my brother Gary and his wife Debbie. We say that we would like to go back many times. It is wonderful. But maybe we should ask for a lower floor room??

Bonnie wants to thank you all once again for your special notes and comments and thoughts and prayers. We are feeling the power of that and the love of you all. Thank you. See some pictures of our trip.