Today was our last day here in West Yellowstone. It rained all day and the temperature stayed at 59 degrees. We relaxed in the RV, completed a 1000 piece puzzle, and had our electric fireplace on. After the extreme heat, the cooler weather was nice.
​We had the best time here and wish we could stay a bit longer. Our RV is mostly packed up and we will get up at 5am to make our way up to Glacier National Park. Unfortunately, the weather forecast is predicting overcast skies and rain for the next few days and there is also some smoke from wildfires moving into the park. We are still hopeful that the weather will change.

Today we stayed at the campsite, cleaned our RV, did laundry, and caught up a bit with work (I am hoping our bosses are reading this...). Doing laundry at the campsite is a task that we dread. Once we get all our dirty laundry in bags, we head to the campsite laundry facilities, hoping the washing machines are empty. Of course they never are, so we drag our heavy bags full of dirty laundry to another laundry facility, if there are multiple ones at the campsite. We rarely score on the first try and back to the RV we go with dirty laundry in tow. About 30 minutes later we try again,  If we are lucky we might find one or two empty machines and we can start with part of our laundry. There always seem to be machines with "Broken - Do not Use" signs so we never find enough machines to do all our laundry at once. Each laundry facility also seems to have that person - a camper who sits there with 3 books, does loads and loads of laundry, tells others all machines are taken, and makes sure no one uses the dryer, because their load is about to be done and they are about to use the dryer. When we finally have one or two washers loaded, we are ready to start the washing machines. Of course, there is always one that swallows coins without doing the work. We lose our coins and now have to find cash to get more coins. After running to all the facilities to find enough working washing machines, and making sure we have enough coins, we typically have our laundry spread out across multiple sites. Now we need to keep track of what laundry is where and when the machines are done. Cliff, the tech guru, uses the phone app to keep track of our laundry location and wash times. When our laundry is finally washed, a similar hunt begins for a dryer and we carry our wet laundry around in search for a dryer. We make sure we are aware our surroundings at all times and when we see campers approach the laundry facilities, we know we need to be faster.  As with the washing machines, there are typically dryers out of order, dryers that just gobble up coins, and dryers that run but don't dry your clothes. With our laundry distributed again among different laundry facilities, we now must keep track of location and drying times. As some dryers don't work well, we have to re-run some loads, making it even more difficult to keep track of all there is to keep track of. Sometimes we run out of coins, usually when the office is closed, and we must return to the RV with wet clothes. We are then reminded of our failed mission all day as we look at our clothes drying on clotheslines strung throughout the RV.
Laundry is an all day ordeal and that is how we spent most of the day today. It also rained all afternoon, which was great for those of us who love rain, clouds, and cold weather. 
Since there are no pictures of sights to post, I am posting Cliff's selfie collection. Apparently, he has discovered the joy of selfies and has been busy with his new hobby, taking selfies at each site while I practice more advanced photography as seen in the last picture.

Our alarms rang early this morning and we left the campsite to drive down to Grand Teton National Park at 6:45am. The weather forecast predicted overcast skies starting at 11am and we tried to get to the Teton Range before it got cloudy. It took us almost 3 hours to get there as the route took us through Yellowstone National Park where speed limits are low, and, in addition, many tourists drive even slower than the speed limit. Driving through Yellowstone in the early morning was an amazing experience as all the hot springs had enormous steam plumes rising up throughout the landscape. 
Grand Teton National Park was beautiful - and sunny. One of our highlights was visiting the  Mormon Row Historic District, where the iconic barn pictures in front of the Teton Range are taken. In the late 1800's, a group of Mormons arrived in Wyoming and built farms and houses, which are well preserved and draw photographers from all over the world.  
We arrived back at the campground in the afternoon and went to see the  IMAX Yellowstone movie. It was interesting and had beautiful footage of the park. The evening was spent eating dinner outside and playing some sports. I fled inside the RV as soon as the mosquitoes launched their attacks - they are ferocious up here.