Team Photos It’s glorious sleeping in till 8 am knowing that a hot breakfast is waitin for ya. The team roused and headed over to the Teton Steakhouse for breakfast buffet, where Mom and Dad were already inside waitin. Jill had brought a couple of her friends: Tim (who actually worked at the steakhouse…and was wearing a sweet karate robe over his uniform) and Micah, a 21 year old sweetheart to join us. Tim was absolutely hilarious, running around and talking to the guys…he even borrowed Brent’s helmet cam and walked around the kitchen chattin with the cooks and staff. Quote of the day was when we were about to leave…Tim, hitting on Micah: “baby you ever need anything from the steakhouse just let me know and I’ll hook ya up!”
After breakfast we headed straight over the to the King Snow Resort on the south side of town, where Jill had gotten us free access to all the awesome amenities. First activity was the chair lift up the ski mountain…no snow this time of year…but you get an amazing view of Jackson and the surrounding area, and of course, the incredible Teton mountains. Hung out at the top with Dibs and Pops for a little before chairlifting it back down (don’t think I’ve ever done that before!) Next up was the alpine slide…which is like a little go cart you take down this semicircle 
track that winds down the side of the mountain…AWESOME (apparently it’s a big thing out west). One drawback is that if ANY piece of skin touches the track at all you can kiss it goodbye…roadrash city…so you gotta watch your speed and control pretty carefully (you have a lever in front of you…push forward to go fast, pull back to apply the brake). I got a sweet little rub on the side of my leg but thankfully recovered control before tumbling out…Brent wasn’t so lucky, ending up with a pretty radical scrape on his arm. All in all the Alpine Slide pretty much rocked (and I blew Pops away going down).
Final activity was some pool time, where 12 or so of our guys hilariously played some sharks and minnows and marco polo (a little more fun with more people) with some of the kids that were at the pool too. Jill got us some Subway for lunch which we munched before heading back to lodging for our necessary nap of the day.
After breakfast we headed straight over the to the King Snow Resort on the south side of town, where Jill had gotten us free access to all the awesome amenities. First activity was the chair lift up the ski mountain…no snow this time of year…but you get an amazing view of Jackson and the surrounding area, and of course, the incredible Teton mountains. Hung out at the top with Dibs and Pops for a little before chairlifting it back down (don’t think I’ve ever done that before!) Next up was the alpine slide…which is like a little go cart you take down this semicircle 
track that winds down the side of the mountain…AWESOME (apparently it’s a big thing out west). One drawback is that if ANY piece of skin touches the track at all you can kiss it goodbye…roadrash city…so you gotta watch your speed and control pretty carefully (you have a lever in front of you…push forward to go fast, pull back to apply the brake). I got a sweet little rub on the side of my leg but thankfully recovered control before tumbling out…Brent wasn’t so lucky, ending up with a pretty radical scrape on his arm. All in all the Alpine Slide pretty much rocked (and I blew Pops away going down).Final activity was some pool time, where 12 or so of our guys hilariously played some sharks and minnows and marco polo (a little more fun with more people) with some of the kids that were at the pool too. Jill got us some Subway for lunch which we munched before heading back to lodging for our necessary nap of the day.
Around 5ish the ‘rents met back up with us and the team headed over to Bar J Chuckwagon suppers…a very unique dining and entertainment experience. “Chuckwagon” dining emulates how the cowboys did it back in the cattle herding days…you sit in a big cafeteria (750 people!), get in line with your tin plate and go down the line: potato, chicken, beef, beans, applesauce, roll and a piece of spice cake…delicious. Everyone’s got a full plate in under 25 minutes. After gorging ourselves on the grub it was time for the show: the Bar J “Wranglers” singing some good old country western tunes and crackin jokes. I don’t know about most of our guys but I had a blast and thought it was hilarious (admittedly, the show was prolly more geared toward the 55 and over crowd, but whatev). They were rockin on guitars, fiddles, harmonicas…you name it….jammin some sweet cowboy tunes with surprisingly awesome harmony. One of the guys, Jerry, had the deepest voice I had ever heard (made for awesome bass effects), and Brian was the funny man of the group with plenty of one-liners.After the show it was nearing 10 pm already so I headed back with the team to get some shuteye before tomorrow’s ride. Stinks I have to say goodbye to Dibs and Pops tomorrow!
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