Jackson Hole, WY

This past week Travis and I took an amazaing vacation in Jackson Hole, WY. Actually, we stayed just over the pass about 5 miles into Idaho in a sleepy little town called Victor. The resort was AMAZING! Our room had a full kitchen, two baths (including one giant jetted tub!) and a living room. We also had a private balcony which was great for relaxing at the end of the day...you could see every star in the sky! We basically had the entire resort to ourselves. We only saw a handful of other people there. Each morning we ate at their restaraunt which was outside overlooking the resort golf course...gorgeous and peaceful with a tasty breakfast :)

On Tuesday we just took it easy all day. We window shopped in Victor and Jackson Hole all day. There was an awesome new shop that just opened a few days before we arrived that was filled with fossils and rocks. We were both amazed at the beauty of the pieces. They had a palm fossil that was fully intact and stood about 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide. They also had a 5 foot by 7 foot table made of a petrified tree. Said it was the largest known and it was beautiful! Travis is still talking about how that would make a good conference table for his little oil company. At the steep price of $68,000 he might have to save up for a while though :) We had pictures, but unfortunately Travis' camera card got erased...bum deal!!!

Wednesday was a nice relaxing day as well. We drove up to Yellowstone and stopped at all of the gysers. They were so beautiful! Many of them were bright blue and looked like good swimming holes...except for the fact that they were 200 degrees!!! So much for cool dip :)

On Thursday morning, we decided it would be fun to do a whitewater rafting trip that afternoon. Nothing like waiting until the last minute to try to book something :) Luckily, we got the last spot on a trip later that day and it was amazing! The trip started off nice and slow with barely a current, much less whitewater rapids. During this time, our guide went over all of the do's and don'ts and all of the potential scenarios and how to deal with them....if you fall out, keep your feet up, hold on to your paddle, we will pull you back in the boat, yadda yadda yadda. Well, first wave of the first rapids and our guide falls out of the boat!!!! That was the ONE scenario he didn't go over!!! He thought it was hilarious, we were all a bit freaked out but also wondered if he did it on purpose...hard to say for sure but he swears he didn't :) We put our newly learned skills to use and pulled him back in the boat. The rest of the trip he stayed put and so did everyone else in our boat. It was a blast! After the 8.5 mile trip was over, we all wished we could do another 8 miles...and bigger ones!!! Wish we had pics to share of this awesome adventure, but our cameras are not waterproof so we didn't get any :) Maybe we will get the professional pic they took...who knows, we'll post if if we get it. Oh, and during the trip we found out that the only reason we got a spot on that trip was because that day happened to be one of 3 days of the entire season that the state allows the rafting companies to get in as many trips as they possibly can during those particular days. They did 4 times as many runs that day ... so we really lucked out!!!

So, notice in the pic below...the guide seat at the back of the boat is EMPTY! That's because he was either under the boat, or somewhere lost in the rapids!

We flew home on Friday and didn't roll into Norman until around 10:45. The kiddos were still at their grandma's houses until Saturday morning...so, it was nice to come home and settle back in quietly.

Anyway, the trip was awesome and we thoroughly enjoyed spending time together and seeing some of the most spectacular places of this great country. A special thanks to Nana Nancy, Papa Dan, Memaw and PawPaw for taking such great care of our precious babes while we were away.