Grand Teton, Rafting and Wagon Trips

We missed our alarm and had a rushed exit from the "RV Resort." (they may have been taking liberties in their title, I'd have to rank it a full star below the four seasons. We were only there about 9 hours, though, and their electricity and sewer holes seemed about the same as the rest of them).

Elsa and I made it to our Wagon Ride drop off by 7 AM and were riding off with Cowboy Evan by about 7:30. We had a chilly but pleasant ride through the woods for about 90 minutes to a nice site by the lake where the cowboys made us pancakes, eggs, hot chocolate and cowboy coffee. If you can eat it with a fork, that's cowboy coffee. I was picking grinds out of my teeth all day :)

We saw some huge and beautiful sandhill cranes in the field on the way out and in flight on the way back. Elsa slept on my lap most of the ride back, recouperating from her late night and early morning. But she loved the cowboy pancakes and ate about half her weight's worth.

While we were doing that, Julie and the older girls took a float trip down the Snake River. I'll let julie fill in some of the details later, but it was an incredibly memorable trip for them. The pictures help paint the picture, but the bufallo picuture was not taken with a long lens, just our little pocket digital. They could hear them snorting.

We had a nice 2 mile hike around Colter Bay in the afternoon and then hosted Jill, Andrew, Madeline and George at the Colter Bay RV park(ing lot with trees). Actually this site was the best so far, actually in the woods and very short walk to the Colter Bay attractions. Julie made some great carne asada with fixings.

After dinner we walked over to the amphitheater at the visitor center on the bay and listened to Ranger Jodi tell us about Coyotes and a little about wolves by comparison. The coyotes up here are quite a bit larger, fluffier and darker then the ones we have in LA, so they're often mistaken for wolves up here, even by the experts.

A fox came trotting up out of the woods just as the ranger was finishing her talk. Everyone pointed and said "there's a coyote." Jodi kept her chin up, but clearly her 45 minutes was wasted on some of us.

Off to bed!