Grand Tetons

 I torture these kids, I really do.  Our own kids are used to waking up at 2 in the morning to drive for 12 hours, but it's not civilized to ask someone else's kid to do that, so I let Chloe and Olympe sleep in and we left at 6.  Plan:  drive four hours and be in Jackson by 10 for breakfast at Starbucks.  Except they're also not used to driving for four hours at a time, so we were having our first bathroom break 90 minutes in.  Ah well, a good reminder for me to stop and smell the roses.  If only there were roses at the Flying J truck stop.

 We did make it to Jackson Hole, ate at Starbucks, and wandered about town using all the bathrooms we could find.  You know I'm kidding you, right girls!? ;)

 Ptolemy's bangs were bugging me.  I hate hair in eyes, but Scott thinks the long locks are cute.  Is this cute, Scott?  lol

 Xanthe wasn't going to come along this time because she remembered the mosquitos from last time, but she cried at the last minute, so I threw her in the car with an extra shirt.

My Insta caption:  "Why are the French girls tittering?"  Indeed, they were giggling about the term "grand teton," wondering if they should break the news to us that it means big boobs in French.  Everyone knows that...except for - if you believe the story - the people who translated an LDS video for youth into French and failed to notice that the church youth were shown river rafting in a raft that said "Grand Tetons" on the side.  Tee hee!

 How many more hours!?  Is there a bathroom?!

 Check out those Tetons!

 We left Jackson Hole at probably 11:30, and I told the kids we had the rest of the day to drive through the two parks, since we weren't expected at the cabin until after dinner.  It was only like 140 miles, but I knew it would take us many hours if we did it right!

 We got to Old Faithful right in time to see it erupt.  Niiiice!

 You can tell by what Ptolemy is wearing that Scott wasn't there. :/

 Very funny, Freestone, changing the "unlawful" to "lawful."

 One the way home, it was cold and the steam was highly noticeable, coming from all the hot pots.  Very cool in the cooler weather.

 The first buffalo we saw.  Little did we know that later, we would spend over an hour trapped in the midst of an enormous herd of them.  But that has to be its own post...