Galina YoungWe are up before dawn as we need to set up for the 1st day of school. The girls will be using their computers for Zoom sessions at our dinette as it is too cold outside. Dinette also doubles as mine and Sol’s bed, so, we need to be out of it and having assembled the table before 7 am. Today is also the first day we are running a heater as it is cold. Lucky for us, the heater went on without a problem.
We wake the girls and set them up with their sessions as we try to stay away from the camera views and figure out all the sign-ons and apps and web sites they need to have access to. The girls were each issued an Ipad by their school but they are waiting for us at home. So, we set them up with their surfaces with about 6 tabs open on each with various school apps they would need to access throughout their sessions.
Each has three session in the morning with some fun activities in the afternoon which we skip -Yellow Stone sounds more fun.
I make hot cocoa for our students and the day seems to be finally going smoothly. I would not say girls are too excited about the start of their school days but they like to tell the teachers that they are calling from Montana from the camping trailer and will be driving into Yellow Stone later today! By far they are more excited about the junior ranger program the park has.
I took couple days off work to run tech support for first days of school, so, after girls’ classes are done we are free to go back into the park even
thought it is raining and is cold.
On the way we stop by the ranger station to get the work books for girls to earn their junior ranger badges!
We attempt to see Grand Prismatic as first thing but it is cold and steam coming off of it obstructs the view.
It is raining harder with no indication of letting up and is cold. On the way to the park, and right before we duck into safe no signal zone, I also catch drift of some work issues that need my attention and
my anxiety level is red hot if spoken about in fire danger terms.
We decide to take it easy and go back to the camp where girls could watch a movie and I work, and Sol set up the rest of their schooling process.
Upon our return, girls stay busy around in the woods around the camp site.
They build a tepee and find an old rusty box to drag across the woods to their ‘tent’. They are very proud of their work. In the end, it was a great day despite the early morning, and the weather, and spending most of it inside.
