2nd Anniversary Trip  

Posted by Amber

On Saturday, August 8, we headed to Evanston, WY. We were running a little bit late, so Matt ordered us pasta bread bowls from Domino's for dinner. (We ended up taking Matt's car.) I had never had one before. It was so good! We didn't stop in Heber or Park City, but just drove through to Evanston. We saw a deer on the way, somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere, Utah. Matt initially was going to take I-15 to I-80, but I told him that wasn't the plan. Now he is a huge fan of going through Heber. It was pretty :) Evanston was frigid when we got there. We stayed at Motel 6. Matt took a picture of the sign on the door while I was checking us in. Mostly it needed to be edited. He found it amusing. :) When we got to the room, I immediately turned on the heater. I've decided I'm a fan of 1 bed rooms. They're the same size as a 2 bed room. . . . but with more space!


This was the lovely comforter in our room. :)
On Sunday, I made Matt get up and go to church. :) Even though I packed him some dress pants, he opted to wear jeans (less changing required). He figured he could get away with it in Wyoming...and he was right. Sacrament was alright. They had some ladies from the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers speak. After sacrament, we went to find some breakfast. We ended up at McDonald's. When we walked in, the first thing I saw were two saddle stools. Then I saw the sea of saddle stools in the kids' play area:
I was so entertained :) The adult side was pretty schwanky, though. We sat next to a wall waterfall. Behind us there was a fireplace with some leisure chairs. Even the raised tables had raised upholstered benches.
After breakfast, we stopped across the way to get gas. Apparently (I wasn't watching or paying that much attention), Matt came out of the stall in front of some guys in a truck. They clearly felt Matt had cut them off. They pulled up next to us at the driveway entrance and were yelling at us. Matt then proceeds to make our right turn, and the come right along next to us. Even though we needed to go left, Matt made to make another right, since the truck was in our way of getting across to make a left hand turn. They caught on that we were turning, and tried to run us over. They successfully blocked the road in front of us, then the both of them got out of their truck and started heading toward us. I thought we were going to die. I was so glad they didn't have a gun, cuz I wouldn't have put it past them. Matt yells at them, then backs up, turns, and heads the opposite direction. We ended up going past Walmart and around the other side of McDonald's to get to the road we needed to take. I decided that getting angry, and maybe even yelling at other cars from the confines of my own is not at all considered road rage. :) Seriously, I thought we were going to die. I am appalled that they had the nerve to cut us off. They seriously could have hit our car! (As you can see, I'm still not over it.) Anyway, after that eventful start, we headed out on the road again.
We saw some other deer-like creature (I'm not sure what it was) on our way out to Fossil Butte National Monument. We stopped there, browsed the small gift shop, watched part of a Discovery Channel bit on Fossil Butte, and looked at the fossils and fossil replicas they had on display.

As we were leaving, I saw this cute little guy on the sign. He let me get pretty close to him.

We didn't stop on our way in, so I made Matt stop on the way out.
 Here we are with the Fossil fishy.

After Fossil Butte, we headed further north. We were going to stop in Alpine, WY for lunch, but there wasn't much there, and Jackson was only 30-45 minutes away.

Arch in Afton
Welcome to Star Valley.
The Snake River on the way to Jackson - a route I am more familiar with than I should be :)

We stopped at Wendy's for lunch. Coincidentally, that is the last place we had lunch before leaving Jackson last year :) After lunch, we headed to town square, then wandered around a few of the shops. It was actually quite fun to just wander. Matt found a store he wants to come back to when he's rich. They had all sorts of cool things, like giant crystal rocks and petrified wood. They had some amber jewelry, and I told Matt he should get me some (cue saleslady :p). She was talking to us about the jewelry. She said that the earrings were pretty cheap, they started at $50. HA! In my world, $50 for a pair of earrings is outrageous! Like I said, it's a store for when we're rich.

On the shed at town square in Jackson.

Outside one of the shops

I thought this little guy was so cute!

The famous arches at town square.

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