Chicken Fried Prison Music

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One Ton Pig.
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I'll get back to that later.
Today Dad and I left Colter Bay and drove to the main lodge in Grand Tetons for breakfast. The view was amazing and of course the lodge is structured so you dine next to enormous windows that look out over a meadow, the lake and then the Tetons.

We followed the lake and stopped along the way at different lookout spots and when we saw an elk and its baby!

On the outskirts of Jackson was an area I would love to return to, called Jenny Lake. Great cabins along the lake, a smaller lake south of Jackson Lake. There were brand new bike paths all around and the view of the Tetons was just as gorgeous as where we were at Colter Bay. Great area to paint!!

As we entered Jackson we found the National Museum of Wildlife Art! I'd read about it and wanted to visit, so hooray for stumbling across it on our own. Fantastic building! Stunning lobby and very impressive collection. There were Rungius (moose painting), Nieto (wolfe painting), an O'Keeffe and an entire exhibit of Robert Kuhn (moose sketches) who did artwork for Field and Stream magazine, zoos and everything in between. He's basically the "grandfather of wildlife painting" and he sure deserves that reputation!

Once in Jackson, Dad and I visited their Snake River brewery which has won just about every brew award possible, we ate lunch and of course had a beer. Dad the Heffeweisen and me the IPA.

I picked out a wonderful historic hotel called The Wort. Built in 1941, the year before my Dad was born ;) it is famous for many things, one of which is its Silver Dollar bar. The bar is covered with 1921 silver dollars, they're embedded in the bar, you can feel them with your hands- it looks really cool. Dad liked it.

Are you still wondering about the One Ton Pig? The house band, their Tuesday night band, is named One Ton Pig. Bluegrass music and all the waitresses had band Tshirts on which read Chicken Fried Prison Music written on the back. Pops and I ate dinner in the Silver Dollar Bar, listened to the band and watched the cowboys dance!