Grand Teton National Park

After struggling to find a hotel on Saturday evening, Dan, Rosey, and the four of us all headed up to Grand Teton National park. It was a beautiful drive, and a fairly warm day when the sun was shining, so it seemed to be a perfect day for hiking. We all put on light jackets and started off on our hike to the hidden falls on the back side of Jenny lake. Over all it was a nice walk, consisting of good conversation with good friends. My paranoia of meeting bear always on the forefront of my mind because we were in bear country, the little flier that they handed out at the part entrance told me so.

The kids were having a great time taking turns holding Rosey's hand and walking with their new favorite person. Only a couple of fights broke out about who was going to hold Rosey's hand and Rosey, was a good sport about the whole thing, took it in stride. About half way through the hike I was regretting not putting on shorts, it was getting down right hot out. We saw lots of birds and rodents but nothing of large size. We stepped over some droppings in the path and I couldn't help but chuckle about how we should have had the "Who Pooped in the Park" book to identify what specific animal made the pile of skat.

Jasmine was happy talking about everything and anything that came to her mind and Kai took a nap in his daddy's arms. After about an hour and a half we got to the falls. The weather was still pretty nice although it had cooled off a little. We took some pictures and enjoyed the beauty of the falls. Unfortunately, as we stood at the falls, the temperature started to drop quickly, and we decided it was time to go before we got rained on. We chose to take the boat back across the lake and it was only a short walk down to the docks. During that time the rain started, and was slowly turning to a more snow like consistency. We got on the boat and started back across the lake.

The conversation with the boats driver slowly ended up going to the subject of bears in the parks and the problems they have had. During this time I kept glaring at Chris because he is of the opinion that bears aren't anything to worry about where I am of the complete opposite opinion. The driver just confirmed my opinion: we are in bear country, we need to be careful. Chris would argue later that it was a non issue and I shouldn't be worried about it. Long story short, we finally made it back to the opposite shore a little wet but none to worse for wear.

We joined Dan and Rosey for lunch and with hugs and goodbyes we wished them the best. They headed out toward the cost for the wedding and we headed north to Yellowstone......