Day Five Chico to...Chico

Day Five

Chico Hot Springs to…………Chico Hot Springs

 

This is our room...it's super small and the bed... we're pretty sure it was made in the early

1900's





This is the view from our room. I took this picture in the morning when it was still foggy, but it is a beautiful view.

The hotel is wonderful, because of the old timey feel...except at night when the "old timey feel" become a creepy feel (to Jess). One bathroom has officially been named the creepy bathroom. It has a claw foot tub with a window directly behind it. At night, the wind howls and moves the curtains around while the tub's hot and cold valves won't turn off completely and make this awful dripping sound....white flowing howling curtains and dripping noises...maybe I've seen too many scary movies... But this girl ain't going in that room to tinkle at night, thank you very much.

 Ready….OK! Today. We. Did. As. Little. As. Possible. When we awoke we both were ravenous. So we sauntered, nee, Jess sprinted with the speed of a thousand pronghorn antelope (it’s the fastest land mammal in North America, duh) down in the 40 degree June morning to the plentiful breakfast buffet. Jess discovered she doesn’t like boysenberry syrup, it was pretty ok....according to Mike. I've been meaning to get his tasters checked.

We then decided to swim in the hot spring, which was REALLY hot! Twas so hot that it was steaming profusely into the crisp Montana sky. We found out the 100,000 gallen pool's water circulates every 6-8 hours and therefore needs no chlorine or sea salt. (Jess's hair and skin loved that.)  The scene it painted was that of an old painter who painted lovely paintings. The wind was whipping like pure nastiness and caused us to exit the enveloping comfort of the pool (we passed the pruny finger test).

Oh, this is embarrassing, we ate lunch at our favorite little lunch spot here at Chico and…..we totally skipped out on the bill, more on that later. Once we had warmed back up we came to the decision to stroll around the grounds of our resort and spa (it was still REALLY cold and SUPER windy). 

We took our obligatory ukulele picture (we have officially decided on a name for our ukulele, it will henceforth be known as Wind brings high pitched woman songs or Dex for short). Once our fingers were frozen into fingercicles (Jess totally wore her awesome woolen mittens) we hit up the gift shop/espresso bar. What a delightful combination.

 

 

 We bought some souvenirs and returned to the main lodge to play some hard fought, feud inducing  board games (Battleship(no aliens included), connect4(no aliens included), checkers(aliens included)). We played pool. Jess beat me at pool twice. Then we ate dinner. Well, when we were ready to pay for our delicious pizza our server asked us if we were in the restaurant earlier that day, we responded in the affirmative. She then told us that we hadn’t paid our previous bill…..oops. So we paid both bills and that makes us awesome again. Now we’re sitting in the extensive volume filled hallways of the Chico Hot Springs library (drip drip dripping with sarcasm). We shall commence another game at some point this evening and potentially get a dessert, maybe not. Tomorrow is the big day when we check in for work at Yellowstone. We will be checking in at 8:00 mountain time. So think of us as most of you are sitting at work. Love you guys!!! Have fun and live it up! KEEP LIVING YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!

P.S. We are currently learning Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash and La Bamba by Richie Valens (Los Lobos doesn’t count) on Dex our wonderful, patient and constantly forgiving ukulele. 

<---These are our under 21, not drinking or in our case, the coolest kids in the hotel tags.