Summer Send Off

This week Jacob started school. Boo. I miss having Jacob all day and every evening with no homework. To say good bye to summer we went camping in Jackson Hole over the Labor Day weekend. We took off after church on Sunday to a very cold and very windy Jackson Hole. We walked around ate ice cream and debated staying in a hotel for the night as temperatures were supposed to be in the 30's for the night. We called the cheapest places we could find, but even the Motel 6 was sold out for the night and they were asking for 100 bucks for one night. Sorry Motel 6... your not worth it. Not even in Jackson Hole. So we took our $20 to the Gros Ventre campground, just a few minutes outside Jackson.

Thankfully the wind had all died down and we set up our tent, got in, and stayed in until morning and tried to stay warm. We were thankful that we brought extra blankets and very warm clothes to sleep in. We saw a moose. Actually two of them.

In the morning we went on a morning hike in Teton Village. 7.4 miles to the summit of a mountain, 4,100 feet uphill. Remind me not to do that again fueled on a maple bar and a banana from Albertsons. By the time we were at the top I was panting and it was VERY cold up there and windy. We heard rumors that it was around 18 degrees. The view was great but I was ready to get the free tram ride back down, get in our warm car and find lunch. (We found Burger King in Driggs, Idaho. It was yucky. Besides my french fries.)

That night we watched the Boise State-Virgina Tech game. It got a little intense there for a minute.

This weekend I was grateful to not have much going on. Just homework for Jacob.

Next weekend we are running the Melalueca 10K in Idaho Falls.