Vacation Day 4

So this day we all decided to sleep in a little and then all go out for breakfast at this little place that is supposed to have great sourdough pancakes in Jackson. The food was good, i would go again, but just hanging out with, getting to eat outside is so worth all the effort. Then we all did a little shopping in the Jackson area. we really did not have plans for the day except Allie really wanted to go fishing with poppee (my dad). So after shopping my brother and sister decided they wanted to hike again, which was completely out for us because there was no way Heath was going to carry Austin around for miles again, and honestly both kids were tiered and just needed a quite slower paced day. So we took Angie and Matthew to the drop off point and decided to stop by the a new preserve that is part of Grand Teton national Park. This is the Laurence Rockefeller preserve- and if you ever have the chance to go up to the area you need to go there. Apparently the land has been owned by the Rockefeller family for forever and a couple of years back before he passes away Laurence gave the land to the national park system, but they had like 20+ buildings on it and it was not in very good shape, so they NPS decided to do major reclamation work and build a LEED certified Platinum buildings and the who preserve would be the 1st of it's kind for any NPS building. Now I know you all not in the environmental biz do not know what a LEEDs building is but basically they have to look at everything they do and build with out effect the environment as much as possible and they get points for each of the things they do and platinum is the top level so it is a HUGE deal, and really the building is so cool architecturally that if nothing else it was worth it just to tour the building. We decided we should find out if the trails were smooth enough for strollers (they weren't) so we left but all decided that if we could find a place to rent us one of those backpack carriers for Austin we would go back.

From there we had read that in Teton village (where the ski lifts are) they have a small fishing pond for kids that is free. So we went and got a pole- the kids did not make us rent one which was good because less than 5 minutes into in Allie was done. She fished with poppee and wanted to go and see the bungee trampoline that she saw on the way in. So needless to say we were all glad we did not pay to rent the pole and no fish were caught. We did find a place to rent a backpack carrier so we were excited about that and planned started to plan out the hike for the next day. It was our night to cook so we ran to the store and got food, then back to the house. Right as we were finishing up dinner on the deck the skies opened up and and it poured but then there was the most beautiful full double rainbow. All in all it was a slower paced day but well worth it, i think we needed it.