September 5th The Man and I celebrated our 21st anniversary :)
We decided to get away for a few days and see some country we hadn't yet explored.
The Jackson/Yellowstone/Tetons area was calling our name and we didn't waste a minute planning a trip!
We found some cute cabins with an amazing fall special ~ $25.00 a night. To good to be true!
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| Taken through the window ~ How exciting to finally be here :) |
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| The famous antler arches ~ There's one at each corner of the town square in Jackson. |
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| As you can imagine antlers are a popular theme in this part of the world. |
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| This is the street we parked on in Jackson. Love the window boxes! |
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| Driving through Jackson ~ There were a lot of people...can't even imagine what it's like in the summer :( |
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| Jackson's a nice little town ~ I don't think it's as amazing as what people make it out to be though. I do love all the fun coffee/beer/wine shops :) |
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| Me outside our cabin. Great door color! |
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| Home sweet home for 4 days ~ Our cabin was so clean. Beyond impressive for $25.00 a night. |
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| Front office of Teton Valley Cabin where we stayed in Driggs, Idaho. |
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| The cabins are off to the right in the trees. |
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| Coffee shop in Jackson. Isn't it charming? ~~~~~~~~~~~~ We got up and left town about 7am on a Wednesday heading towards Idaho. We were met with smoky skies as soon as we arrived in Idaho. Idaho had some bad fires this summer as did Montana and Wyoming. They were actually on the verge of evacuating Jackson the week before we got there. We found our cabin in the Teton Valley of Idaho. We couldn't really see any of the mountains from there because of the smoke. We ate lunch at Tony's Italian Pizzeria in Driggs. All you can eat pizza, salad and soup. After lunch we decided to head over Teton Pass to Jackson. Jackson is a cute, little town. We walked around and window shopped. It didn't take long for us to look at each other and say "let's head for the mountains!" Before we left Jackson we stopped and signed up for a scenic river float for the next morning. We decided to make sure we knew where Bar J Chuckwagon was as we had reservations for the next night. We found it easily and then kept on driving down that road to see where it went. We weren't really paying attention to where we were and it was still pretty smoky. Pretty soon we came to this sign:            |
So I'm going to go ahead and post this as is.
The above pictures were all taken the first night we saw the Tetons.
I fell head over heels in love the moment I laid eyes on these magnificent mountains! The beautiful old hymn "How Great Thou Art" came to mind and we actually had a Liberty ( southern gospel group) CD in and we listened to them sing that song :)
The sun was going down and with the smoke hovering in the air it made a spectacular sunset! A breathtaking experience for sure.
We had a wonderful trip and I will be posting more pictures :)
~JanMarie
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