Day 11: Hello Whitewater!

This has been an extremely long day! We started very early this morning leaving camp around six. We headed down to the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole. The first few hours me Britt and Austin slept! We woke up to beautiful mountains surrounding us. These were the Teton Mountains. The difference about these mountain and was they seemed to be independent mountains, instead of being a chain that looked like they met about half way up these didn't seem to meet until the ground. They were like one single mountain beside another single mountain, but they were still capped in snow and beautiful!

South of Grand Tetons we stopped in Jackson Hole. It was a beautiful town and full of people on vacation. We ate lunch at a hole in the wall burrito shop called D.O.G. Momo's shack. There were tons of college age students eating there who looked like they just woke up from a long night. The food was good though and fairly cheap.

After letting our food settle we headed down to the boat house for out white water rafting trip down the snake river. The water definitely was cold, but it felt great in the 90 degree weather. Sitting on those rubber boats was like sitting on a frying pan so going through the rapids and getting soaked was nice. Austin was picked along with another young guy to be the head rowers. He sat at the front of the boat and got the worst of the crashing water, but he never fell out! The other guy did get thrown out during the worst rapids and went into shock from the cold water, but we got him back in the boat. Only Dad Britt Austin and I went, but Mom traveled down the road taking pictures! It was a ton of fun!

After rafting we had to get back on the road and get down to Salt Lake City. Getting there was a little rough cause we had to take some crazy curvy mountain roads to get to the interstate and it felt like we would never make it but we did and the fun didn't stop there. It was our first night to get to stay in a Holiday Inn Express, we were so excited to get there, but once we got there we discovered we were at the wrong one. We had booked a hotel further south, but I thought it was this one. So we took our bags back out and got back in the car again. It was 9:30 and that lunch from noon was long gone! So once we got close to our actual hotel, we ran into Olive Garden and got Soup, Salad, and Bread sticks to go. When we got to the correct hotel we found out we had booked a suit. It was so nice, kitchen, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom in the room (Mom specially liked the 2 separate flat screen tv's). That was a huge improvement from the Koa's. There we sat down and ate dinner which made it all worth it. The best food so far on the trip and a fluffy bed to sleep in. It was fantastic. I can't wait to go to sleep and sleep in tomorrow! This is going to be great!