Jackson Hole Getaway

Earlier this month Adrian and I had the chance to go on an overnight trip to Jackson Hole, WY as part of his company's 40th Anniversary celebration. Each employee got to choose between several overnight excursions happening throughout the year- all expenses paid! We chose earlier this year...before knowing baby #5 was on the way and as luck would have it, our trip was dubbed "Saddles & Paddles." As in, horseback riding and white water rafting. Awesome. We weren't sure if we could change trips after we'd already made our selected, so instead we just decided to go and participate in what we could.

The trip was fun, but it was also filled with early mornings, long rides on a tour bus and limited sleep. It was really nice to have a chance to be by ourselves {thanks to Christy and Keoki for watching all 4 kids for us!!}  Jackson Hole was a quaint little town which neither Adrian or I had never seen before. We did get a short time to do some sight-seeing and I think we saw about as much as we needed to in that 2 hours, lol! Really, for us the trip was about getting a little break from normal life and that's exactly what we got. No cooking meals, no picking up the house, no tag-teaming getting 4 littles ready for bed... it was a very welcomed trip.

Here are a few pictures we got from along the way. We didn't take a camera, so these are just some we got on our phones.

Yeah, they live life a bit differently there in Wyoming. LOL. This was of course, taken near where the rest of the group rode horses. They'd split into 2 groups- one went and got lunch while the others took the horseback ride. So we opted to just hang out and have lunch twice, lol! No, the second time we got dessert. It was fun. 

We took a walk after lunch and before dessert- this is what we saw.

This was as close as we got to riding a horse, lol. Really though, I think I'm okay with that!

We went to Bar J Wranglers for dinner. I'd heard it was a fun show, and it was! Dinner was "camp" style- they had feeding hundreds of people down to a science. There were 4 main entrees to choose from and everyone got the same side dishes and dessert. Beans, a biscuit, applesauce and spiced cake. The food was pretty good! Although we were pretty tired by that point and the benches you had to sit on were so incredibly hard, by the end of the show I was pretty much DONE. We had a great time though and the singing was excellent! 

While the rest of the group was white water rafting Adrian and I got to go do a little sight seeing. It just so happens there was a classic car show going on, so we did a little shopping to get souvenirs for the kids, then sat down in main square and watched all the cool cards drive by. 

This was my little friend who visited while we were watching the car show. This little guy had no fear- the kids would have loved him!

Here's our tired pose while watching the car show. Several more hours of sleep would have been very much appreciated. Oh well. 

Our view of the town from our little bench.