Jackson Hole

For the last four years or so, Mondo and I have gone snowmobiling during the winter. It's a nice weekend getaway and is fairly reasonably priced. We always invite people to go up with us and once in a while they do. This year we went with a different tour company and went trail riding in Jackson Hole Wyoming. We have been going through West Yellowstone in Montana but I think we have seen all there is to see in that small town so we decided to branch out this year. The trip was Mondo's Christmas present because he is so hard to shop for.
Some friends of ours, Martha and Jorge, came up with us. We drove up together in my dad's Jeep and got drove into Idaho Falls for some lunch at the Steak & Waffle house, great combo am I right? We rolled into town around five and started the search for the hotel I found on the internet... Siri was not our friend and we ended up at a similarly named skeezy hotel- thank God it was the wrong one! We walked into the lobby and pushed a doorbell on the wall, when the door opened it was to a 12-year old looking girl in her pajamas watching Nickelodeon on her couch. I would have been very upset with Hotels.com if this was the place... Once we got to the right place I was very impressed. For cheaper than it was to get a dingy bed downtown for the night we were housed in a ski lodge resort. It was very much worth the money we payed and would definately stay at the Snow King Resort again... just don't do their breakfast... continental breakfast for 'sit-down' breakfast kind of prices.
That first night we saw a couple of moose in the tennis court, took one of those silly 'old-fashioned' photos (He told Martha we could do whatever she wanted... he should have been more specific), ate some bomb pizza and somehow ended up at this great cowboy bar. My husband hates country music, dancing and hanging out in bars- this was an amazing night in my book!

(Proof!)

There was a live country band playing great songs, wonderful drinks and enough Wyoming-strength beer that my husband offered to dance with me.
I also found a new favorite winter time drink. It was called a Snow Bunny- but that makes me feel like I need to dye my hair blonde and have fluffy boots on so I shall come up with a better name for it... it was coffee, chocolate vodka and whipped vodka with whipped cream on top. It was warm- the chocolate/whipped/coffee mixture tasted like a cafe mocha- delicious!
Snowmobiling was great, saw the beautiful Teton mountains, froze my arse off and got some great pictures. Our tour guide Tom was hilarious and really made the trip twice as fun as it would have been with anyone else. There was a couple from London, Michigan and some gentlemen from North Carolina with us. The poor gal and her boyfriend from London decided to be adventerous and each rode their own sled, I always make Mondo drive and just enjoy. She was a little too leary of man-handling the sled and she went off into the trees. Needless to say she was traumatized after that- we parked the sled on the side of the trail and she doubled up with her boyfriend. Since Tom would have had to tow her sled back- I volunteered to drive it down the mountain on the way back to the trailer. He went very slow for me and I ended up doing great- I def enjoy being a passenger better though.
We went to a local brewery for dinner, Snake River Brew Pub had some delicious food, even better dessert (gourmet S'mores) and the boys got to try all the beers that they made there.
It was a very fun weekend and I'm so glad everyone enjoyed it. I will post pictures once I get a chance to.