After a hard morning on the range we headed to the dining room for lunch. We had a menu to choose from and I selected the burger and onion rings - I wholeheartedly recommend both - again YUM Yes, that is another Diet Pepsi! The burger 'bun' was crusty with herbs and cheese. Drooling....
We talked a fellow adventurer into signing up for horseback riding that afternoon with one of his boys after he saw our pictures. They had fun.
Now for the best treat I ate the entire trip. The Butterfinger Lollipop! It was butterfinger ice cream covered in a dark chocolate shell. The chocolate was the quality of Godiva. The chef melts the chocolate, pours it over the ice cream adds the chocolate stick and freezes it all. It was a really hard shell. DELISH!
Our afternoon activity started at 2:00 pm. Off to catch some trout. Ben was in charge of Fly Fishing. Really nice young man. We had a short orientation to how to get your line out there and how to fling it behind you and then out into the pond. I ended up putting more flies in the long grass than in the pond and after my second fly told Ben "fly fishing isn't my thing". He saw this as a teaching challenge to make me enjoy fly fishing. He stuck with me for about 20 minutes until I caught a fish. I had to give Ben credit for that one but I did catch another one on my own. It was all catch and release.
Fly fishing was fun and relaxing. Here are a few photos from our afternoon. One of the most fun things was watching Landon RUN from one adventurer to another when they caught a fish to take a picture!
DS1 with his catch. DS2 had worse luck than his mom but stuck it out and had a good time.
Back to the main lodge for tea time - cookies and an assortment of fruit and cheese in the room off the main dining room. Just look for the piano.
Running of the horses
Don't miss when the wranglers run the horses out at night to graze! A few wranglers ride ahead and wait down by the lake to herd the horses. Tonight Noah rode out first and gave us a fun display with his lasso.
Next here come the horses! DH and I both laughed that Herbert was again bringing up the rear.
Garrett was behind them cracking his whip. It sounded like a gun shot and was very Indiana Jones!
If you look closely you can see them running in front of the lake.
Spent a few minutes enjoying the event and then headed inside for some shuffleboard and Foosball before dinner.
***BLL Junior Adventurer Notes***
Now we didn't have any junior adventurers so I didn't pay a lot of attention to when and what they were doing. While at the lodge they had a movie night and made t-shirts. They seemed to enjoy both activities
***End of my Junior Adventurer trip report***
Farewell dinner.
Dinner was again just outstanding. I had sea bass and it melted in my mouth (after I scooped off the spicy salsa off the top). The guys all had beef. We had so much fun sitting with the family from Rhode Island.
Dessert was served out in the main lodge room by the bar. Landon and Daniel were setting up for our final event - the trip review which took place in the dining room in front of the fire place. I encouraged many to ask for the Butterfinger Lollipop (the chef said at lunch there was left-overs) Everyone LOVED it.
First we all had the opportunity to say what we enjoyed most about the trip. It was really nice to hear EVERYONE'S opinion of the highlight of the trip. One of the most telling was the dad who came with his ~11 yo son. He said he booked the trip because he thought his son would enjoy it and was surprised to find he had a great time too. The dad of the family that did the Nights & Lights earlier in the summer commented that is was just the right mix of activities and free time. We had to agree!
My boys loved the Brooks Lake Lodge. One even said he loved the bed there! DH said he loved the whole trip but especially the rafting and spending time with our boys before they go off to college
I told the group the best thing for me was letting someone else do all the planning.
Our guides had gone through the pictures they both took during the week and put together a very classy slide show. I'm hoping that is offered with the Photopass but I'm thinking not.
We all lingered and visited in the bar/main lodge until midnight. DS1 and the young women from Rhode Island played many games of shuffleboard. She also schooled DS2 in fooseball. Get ready for college guys!
DH and I played a few games of suffleboard ourselves VS the Rhode Island couple. They were really fun!
DS1 stayed up later than all of us playing darts with Landon and the BLL staff. Here they are around midnight. Again, excuse my Olympus indoor pic.
Off to bed. Breakfast started at 0800 with our shuttle to the airport scheduled for 0900. Hard to believe our adventure was almost done.
Next Up: Happy Trails
Was the hike part of Yellowstone, or just on the way there?
I brought my other camera strictly for the rafting. Good thing too eh? 
I sure hope you took pictures!
Boy was I ever educated. Old Faithful isn't like clockwork but he is predictable. In every hotel and gift shop there is a board that lists when it is due to erupt again. They are +/- 10 minutes.
Oh, not that it was a competition. 
In reality this was a BLAST for young and young at heart alike~Many house spent here (bar is to the right 
