Jackson fun

Today we went to Jackson, taking Max and Olivia. I read aloud from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the car on the way to Jackson. We met Paul at  MacDonald's for lunch. Purely by chance, Olivia's dad was there too, standing outside when we got there. He and Olivia were both amazed. "I never eat here!" he said. We allowed that was true for us all. It was a secret and spontaneous meeting of the  "organic foodies club," spying out the enemy!

                                Paul and Max at MacDonalds. 

After lunch Ellen and the kids went to the rec center and I to the library. But we met at about 3:45 and went to downtown Jackson for ice cream (this time I had apricot sorbet - yum!). It was a beautiful, cool, cloudless day. We ate our ice cream in the park and while there, I called John to wish him and Cynthia well in their "Bernie Sanders event" they hosted tonight. They were expecting a dozen people or so. Similar events were taking place all over the country. Go Bernie! 

                    The long line at the ice cream shop

                                    Cone-eating time

Across the street from the ice cream shop is a little plaza with several life-sized bronze statues of famous people, sitting on benches. Perfect photo-op place for tourists. Here we go:

                            Olivia and Max with Abe

                  Max with George - he liked the sword 

                       In the lap of Einstein

I read Harry Potter on the way back too. It makes the miles go by very quickly - we were in Alpine in no time. 

Ellen and I got in another walk - this time we took the long way to the very top of the Trailridge development: 

                                       View from the top