vacation day 3

today we drove from salt lake city to jackson, wyoming. this trip took longer than i thought it would but we also stopped a lot and we had some trouble getting out of salt lake. it amazes me how we can have not 1 but 2 gps units and still not be able to get to where we want to go. the gps wanted to send us the route we didn't want to go. once we figured out we were not going where we wanted we decided to turn around and also try to find a place where we could pick up a couple of items (a flexible tripod for the camera and an aux cable for the mp3 player). an hour and a half later, we were on the road. we drove i80 east through park city and north out to wyoming. we hit evanston, wy around lunch time. we stopped at a little thrift store. the lady running the place had a sprite bottle but i think it had more than just sprite. she wouldn't let us leave the store until we took a picture of chris with a super gross cow tail hat. we ate next door at a place called michaels. not bad sandwiches but there were weird naked lady pix on the bar side and weird surrealism circus pix on the table side. we got back on the road after lunch and drove in and out of wyoming and idaho. we hit the edge of the national forests around 2:30pm and the scenery changed dramatically. my ears started popping as we drove up and over the mountain passes. we stopped and took a few pix on the banks of the snake river. we got to jackson around 5pm-ish. we got checked in to our super sweet hotel room, unpacked and then drove into jackson proper. there was a lot that chris remembered about living here but it is also very different- a lot bigger and a lot of new places. we did some souvenir shopping, walking around and had dinner at the million dollar cowboy bar. it was kind of a fancy pants place. our waiter was really nice but no matter how hard he tried, we did not get dessert- we were stuffed!