Tetons – Tuesday, July 15

James McLaughlin reporting

Today we went to the Tetons. We drove for about two hours. When we got to the Tetons, we spent about half of our time at a visitor center / museum and half at Jackson Lake.

At the visitor center we went into the museum of Indian heritage. The guest artist was a full-blooded Indian. He was working on a painting, he said that he is going to call it “The Still of the Day.” The museum also has a slide show of Indians in their own land. Some pictures were of mothers taking care of their children and of fathers taking care of the cattle. In some glass cases were Indian tools like hunting knives, clothing, toys, and musical instruments. There was a porch on the back where you could see the Tetons very clearly. There were some modern day violin musicians who played lots of very beautiful songs.

We had a picnic by Jackson Lake. There were lots of kayakers who were enjoying themselves. We also swam in our shorts, and we found lots of colored rocks. Dad did a triple skip with a rock across the water.

On the way to the Tetons and back we crossed the continental divide. Water on one side flows toward the Atlantic. Water on the other flows toward the Pacific.

-- James

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