Last minute decision to visit the Tetons had us on a 3 day 2 night
vacation - D, Ang, Kenz, Mason, Cam, and Sadie. We stayed at the cutest
little Airbnb in Tetonia. It was such a great little place to stay. Cows
in the backyard, birds of prey flying past, waking up to the sounds of
elk, plus a view of the backside of the Tetons out the window. I
absolutely love the Teton Valley in Idaho. I’ve only visited twice but
each time it just speaks to my soul. I just might have to move to Driggs
someday.
As far as the Tetons went, we had a
good hike to Taggart Lake Monday afternoon after a long drove to get
there. I love this hike and we sat on a rock at the lake for awhile and
put our feet in the water. We took the long trail back - not realizing
it was the long trail. Sorry kids.
Tuesday in
the park saw us pretty much driving around looking for a parking spot.
We drove the Jenny lake scenic drive twice on accident but listened to
some Queen to make things better and found a pullout that we took
advantage of. We ate lunch at the pullout and then Darren found us a
little place that took us down to Jenny Lake to a fabulous spot where we
hung out skipping rocks and stacking rocks and throwing rocks and
sitting on the rocks. This was my favorite part of the trip. Darren and I
tried to walk in the lake on the rocks but it was too painful.
After
that a few of us wanted to hike to Hidden Falls so we did. Kind of a
rough start as some did not like that idea while some did. It was a good
hike where we found the spot Darren and I had taken Kenzie and Mason 19
years ago. We made it to the waterfall and it felt like Corona city so
we left quite quickly. We decided to ride the ferry back across the lake
which gave us a little Disneyland feel as we had to wait in line.
Then
it was back to our place but not before waiting 90 minutes to get our
dinner. Luckily it was pretty much worth the wait to eat a little
Brakeman Grill burgees, fries, and onion rings. Mmm. We watched some
more Alone episodes and played Scum and enjoyed staying at the Black
Beauty.
Wednesday we dropped Darren and Mason
off in Pinedale where Tanner met us - for their backpacking trip with
Clayton and Josh and Brian and Taylor and Matt to the wind rivers
(pretty much doing the trip D and I did 2 weeks ago).
