Oh What Do You Do In The Summertime #1

A week after school got out we left for Utah.

On July 8th Jeff and I left on a long weekend to Jackson, Wyomin' to see the Grand Tetons.

All I have to say is

relaxing and beautiful.

We stayed at the Cowboy Village right in Jackson. We would recommend it to anyone going... individual, small, cozy cabins.
Before we even checked into our cabin we did some white water rafting. We rafted for 2 hours, stopped for a fabulous BBQ and then rafted some more. Don't we look awesome in our skin-tight-chubby-sucking-wet-suits?! As ridiculous as we felt we really were glad that we had those on because we got drenched. The food was delicious, the ride was so dang fun and we had the nicest people on our raft. Yeeha!

Who can ever tire of seeing a herd of buffalo lounging around?

I have have this weird curiosity about signs along the road that say, "Historical Marker Ahead." I always wonder what it could be. Last summer on our cross country trip I nearly died of a big rash from all the signs we saw along the road but never stopped to see. I guess I'm just curious as to what could be so important... and I love to learn historical little tid bits.
With that introduction...
As we traveled down the highway paralleling the Tetons we came across the sign that said, "Historical Marker Ahead." Immediately I got excited started nudging Jeff's arm, "Please stop. Please." Since we had nothing better to do he unwillingly agreed.
Well, had we not stopped we would have missed out on the Cunningham cabin. Mr. Cunningham was a very important figure to that particular frontier. He donated thousands of acres to the Government. He also had some sort of Indian shootout thingy happen right there beside his cabin. So glad we stopped. Jeff didn't think so.
Along main street we enjoyed many touristy attractions.
Looking out to Jenny Lake.
We road a boat across the lake and then took a 2 mile hike to the top of a lookout point overlooking Jenny Lake. We followed this beautiful windy river to the top. (Jeff says I never include any decent pictures of him in our blog. Although I look squinty-eyed taking the picture of ourselves, I had to post this because Jeff looks dashing as ever.)

Divine.

Some not-so-very-panoramic shots of the view as we traveled along the main highway.

Our last night there we experienced the highlight of the trip.

The Bar J Wranglers.

If you ever hear of them in your area you've got to go see them.

We were served a fabulous chuck wagon dinner and then were delivered a funny and fantastic show of singing, banjo pickin', foot stompin', knee slappin', story filled fun.

Before the show Jeff and I enjoyed some bartering with the locals.

These just speak for themselves.

Our favorite ice cream place which we enjoyed a few times. When we lived in Southern California we enjoyed Moo's ice cream after we went to the temple in San Diego. We never dreamed we could enjoy it on our trip to the Tetons.