End of Day 11: BP Tour

We started out his morning in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which is in one of the most gorgeous areas of the US I've ever seen. Seriously, if you get a chance, make time to visit the Grand Tetons! They are spectacular!!

Anyway, my TomTom navigation device (with the voice of John Cleese - really!) recommended a route back to Burley that was different from either of the 2 that Kevin & Carol have ever taken before. We took Hwy 20 over the mountains and enjoyed the beautiful mountain flowers, trees, and rockslides. ;-)

We stopped for square ice cream - that's where we met the motorcycle guy - and then also stopped at a few more rest areas along the way, including one which promised Oregon Trail wagon tracks if we walked down a "marked trail". Well, it wasn't very *well* marked because we took a wrong turn and ended up in the Massacre Rock State Park, a back entrance, I guess. We finally figured out that the tracks were way on the other side of the highway, but it was really hot & a long way to walk (especially after walking so far out of the way already!), that we gave up & went back to the car. Kevin's dad later told us that we didn't miss much; there are better tracks here in Burley that we'll see tomorrow.

We made it to Burley at about 2:30, unloaded the luggage & the harps, then napped for about an hour before heading over to the Methodist church to set up for our concert. Karen, the pastor there, was so kind & welcoming & gracious to us; she really made it a pleasant experience for us.

We had about 51 people in the audience, which is not bad for a small town on a Monday night. Apparently, the Prebyterians had been spreading the word about our concert all week! Many of them came tonight & brought friends, too.

Kevin's best friend from high school happened to be in town visiting his folks & so he & his family came to the concert, then back to the house for ice cream afterwards.

I'm completely exhausted now. Everybody else has to get up early tomorrow to take Carol to the airport in Twin Falls. She's flying to LA to visit her parents for a day before flying with her mom to Cleveland to her sister's house, from which they will all drive down to Louisville, Kentucky, for a Presbyterian Women's conference.

(Side note from the Small World Department: Carol's sister works at Lakeland Community College, from which I graduated in 1996 with an AAB in Computer Programming.)

I'll be sleeping in tomorrow morning, but will be up & about by the time they all get back (about 9:30 or so).

I'm utterly exhausted and need to sleep, so I will just say good night now.

Good night! ;-)

-Michèle (sent via my mobile phone)