Jackson Hole - Day 8

Well today we packed up and we are on a long trek home.  I have talked about all our activities, but there is a big part of the trip that I have not talked about - our hotel.  We stayed at the Hilton Homewood Suites in the downtown Jackson area.  The people there were AMAZINGLY NICE!  The front desk people that I learned by name and they learned our names were Kelsey, Cindy, and Levin.  There were others that were nice and greeted us with a smile and any help, but these 3 were the ones that I interacted with the most.

The daily breakfast helped to save us some $ for sure.  We never ate breakfast out.  Monday - Thursday they had some small meal in the evening that we ate once.  But Tina's favorite part was in the late evening.  There was a man named Levin and one of his many jobs in the evening was to bake and set out cookies and milk at 8:00 pm every night.  Tina and Peter got cookies every single night we were there!  One night we were going to the gun barrel restaurant and were going to miss "cookie time".... Tina talked to Levin and he saved her a stack of cookies.  We came back in and he had them saved and went to the kitchen to get her some milk!  Rod and I spent several nights talking to him.  Learned he was a retired teacher from Texas.  We talked about Tori and the fact that she was a new teacher, talked about Tina and Peter and how they are both hard workers, talked about Tina and her scholarship to Austin Peay, etc.  We learned some about his kids and the fact he found out this week his daughter is pregnant with his 3rd grandchild!

This morning we needed to ride the shuttle to the airport at 10:45. Last night Tina was not able to get the last souvenir that she wanted.  We called the store and at 10:00 they were still not open.  One last call at 10:30 and they were open.  I went down and talked to the front desk and explained our problem.   He told me "we are here to help"... and so our shuttle driver made the 3 block detour to the store, parked on the curb, let Tina run in... and get her shorts she wanted!  Then we headed on to the airport. I would absolutely recommend this place!

Here is Levin and Tina on our last night with her last cookies!!!!  Thank you so much for your hospitality!