Festive Weekend

The sun came out yesterday morning and it made us feel like getting out. Especially since we've had so much overcast and wet weather, it was a nice break. I started by picking up a lawnmower at the RV maintenance area and cutting the grass at our campsite:

That took all of about 10 minutes. We are responsible for caring for our own spaces which is only the second time we've had to do that since we started workamping. The only other time was at Greys Point Camp in Topping, VA. It's really no big deal except they use a ride-on mower to cut the grass at all the non-employee spaces and it wouldn't take a lot of extra effort to do a few more.

Anyway, we thought we would venture into town for some of the Memorial Day Weekend events and activities. It warmed up nicely as we arrived in town and saw that many more people had the same idea:

The planned activities included a parade - which we missed - and lots of entertainment on the street by those tents you see above:

It was a huge crowd and we stayed in that area to watch a couple Marching Teams. The shot below is of one of those teams and it was announced that these ladies in the group represented a total of 250 great grandchildren:

We walked around town and really enjoyed going into the neat shops, galleries and stores that Jackson Hole is famous for. We stopped for lunch at a place called D.O.G. and had very good Philly steak sandwiches before doing some more of the town. The clouds were rolling in and it was getting cool once again, so we went back to the car and headed out. On the way out we drove past the Elk Refuge on the edge of town to get this shot of the clouds and snow covered mountains:

We had thunder and lightening and the heavy rains came. It is just about at the end of the wet season here - from what we were told, and there will be very little rain the rest of the summer. There are planned activities in town the whole summer and we plan to enjoy as much of that as possible while we are here.

Today is our final day of relaxation before starting work tomorrow at 8 AM. It is snowing right now, but the weather is going to improve each day until we are off again on Thursday and Friday. We are anxious to get back to the Grand Teton National Park and to Yellowstone, so those days look like the first real opportunity for that...