Our final two days were spent in the historic Chico Hot Springs hotel. While the hot springs themselves were great, I have to say that after 8 nights of staying in historic (read: a nice way to say slightly outdated....but it's fine because we say historic) I made the comment that just because we're staying in a historic hotel doesn't mean we need historic mattresses! We had two double beds in our cabin at Old Faithful and we had just one double at Chico. We got lucky and were able to snag one of the few rooms that had a bathroom attached. The other girls in our group had to use the communal bathrooms that were located in the hallways. They weren't bathrooms for multiple people at one time, but they were shared acrossed a handful of rooms.
On our final day of vacation Ryan and I really packed in the activities! We hiked twice, a total of about 7 miles and we visited Livingston, a small town about 30 minutes outside of Chico.
Livingston was cute - it had two breweries (you know we had to visit them both!), a small little downtown area with some cute little shops like a kitchen store, a bookstore and plenty of local artist shops.
After we returned from Livingston we met up with Jenny and Jack who had just finished a game of disc golf. Jack, Ryan and I decided to take a hike to the Yellowstone Film Production film set (Not the Yellowstone show...the name of the company is confusing). We looked up the movies and shows that Production company did and nobody recognized any of them, but, the film set was pretty cool to check out.
It 100% felt like we were doing something a little naughty by walking around an empty film set trying the door handles and peering into windows to see what was inside of the buildings. Many of them were just facades with nothing behind the windows, but a few of them were fully set up, like the church and a fully functioning stable that appeared to have had animals bedding it the pens at one point.
After 8 nights and 9 days of fun and adventure we traveled home on Thursday afternoon and made it back to Marengo before bedtime. The kids had welcome home signs all made up for us and were jumping around in the window cheering as we drove up the driveway. Erin held down the fort for us for the majority of the trip and I'm so thankful for her! She did a great job...I think the kids wish she was their mom now! She had all kinds of fun activities planned for them including a trip to Epic Air, Build A Bear, a movie at the theater and bowling!
Vacation is fun...but I'm glad to be home too!
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