Old Faithful Inn

Well, I didn't manage to get a room in the Inn for our wedding night but we have one tonight. It's in the original 'old house' part of the the Inn with an awesome view of Lower Geyser Basin. It doesn't have a bathroom in room, but there's a big old claw-footed tub in the shared bathroom next door. I LOVE the Inn, the creaky floors, the red doors with the giant doorbell, the piano player on the second floor, the dim hallways lit with a warm yellow glow and all that lovely twisted lodgepole pine. The place is like cuddling next to a campfire. It feels like home. As I child, I always imagined it to be my castle in the forest. A real American castle.
It's been a really good drive up to the park. We left TX Wednesday and made it to Southfork, CO the first night, went through Durango and Moab (another favorite place) and made it to Park City by the second night. We staied in PC Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We went on a bunch of hikes trying to get ready for Fairyland III. We haven't exactly been training for it... here's hoping.
Today we left PC around 10 am and headed up through Wyoming, stopping in Jackson Hole for our marriage license. The lady at city hall was really nice. We stopped at West Thumb Geyser Basin on our way into Old Faithful. We saw a snowshoe hare and some elk in the basin. Fishing Cone was underwater. It's been a really big snow year, I'm a little worried about trail conditions and the crossings on the way to Fairyland.