DAY 11 Driving through Glacier National Park

DAY 11

We woke up at 8:00 this morning to drive through the park. These are some of the views along the way.

We decided to pull over and stop to take a hike.

This looks like a fake backdrop.. I love this spot I wish we had the RV sitting on this rock.

Thad telling the kids he saw a bear......he didn't.  We did see bear poop and they had one of the trails closed because of bear danger.



It sounds weird to say that green water is pretty....but this water was such a pretty green color.



Kali and Alexa stopped for a photo and then a chipmunk came to run them out.







We decided to head back to the campsite since they had shut off the trail to the falls and we had went as far as they would let us in the RV. It was a fun day but we wished that we would have stayed by the campsite and went canoeing and fishing. It was allot of driving today. Mitchell keeps talking about fishing so I told him that I could catch more that him. We decided to have a fish-off. We started fishing and it was freezing. All I was catching was moss. This stinks...I think that Mitchell was right, there are no fish in this lake. I decided it was too cold for the girls, so I turned it over to the true fisherman. If I could have found a place to buy fresh fish I would have done it in a heartbeat to say that I beat Mitchell. He was so convinced that I could never beat him. He didn't catch anything either. We decided to take another hike before we have supper. 

Sissy loved this spot.

Lawson shoe skiing

The boys trying to be tuff....this water is freezing

Lawson skipping rocks

we saw a jackrabbit

 We had chili for supper and this guy walks by with a rod. They ask him if he had any luck and he said that he caught 5 trout on marshmallows and worms. The boys took off flying to try it out again. I put Paisley in the bath and watched the boys come back with no luck. They all hit around the volleyball and played in the snow again before we called it a night.

DAY 10 HEADING TO GLACIER NATIONAL PARK

DAY 10

     We woke up around 8:00 this morning to wash up all the clothes and towels. That was Thad's idea.....when we do laundry 2 days in a row it usually means that we might be going somewhere that doesn't have laundry. We cleaned up the RV while we waited for the clothes and the kids played pool again. It is 10:00, we are going to take a picture beside the bear up front and then head out.

We stopped by Walmart in Helena, Montana and there were seagulls everywhere in the parking lot. I thought that was weird.

 

We put up the groceries and headed towards Glacier. This has been the longest day in the RV. I knew this day was coming I just wasn't sure how long that it would take. We haven't run the generator because we haven't needed the AC and we are trying to save gas. So we don't have much time to get things charged  and they can't watch movies so it has taken its toll.. I normally don't like to use the "S" word but today I have said shut up all day long..... These kids laugh and talk more about farting than anyone I have ever seen. That makes me crazy. I think that everyone has been threatened today and now Thad has decided to punish them by making them sit up front with him. I told them that was the best seat because you got to see everything up there. Nobody was impressed though. We started to see some mountains and hills on the way so that thrilled them a little. Thad saw a bear after a mama and a baby bear and we stopped in the side of the road to get a picture.

It was allot further away than it look. Here is how far we are away from it.

Thad washing the windshield

We stopped at a gas station where we saw a dog that looked like Socks. We finally made it to Glacier National Park and the views are great.

We saw these goats crossing the road as soon as we got here.

 We are staying at Two Medicine Campgrounds. Then we are going to drive through the park tomorrow.

 The view from our campsite

 These squirrels and chipmunks are everywhere

 Look how tiny this one is.

Lawson built a tiny snowman

 Playing in the snow in shorts

Thad's favorite spot.... by the campfire

This is one of my favorite spots...so beautiful.

The only problem with this place is the monster mosquitoes... They are everywhere. We sprayed Paisley with bug spray and it broke her out. I am glad that I brought Benadryl. She will look better in no time. Hot dogs over the campfire, baths, and then to bed..

 

DAY 9 CHICO HOT SPRINGS

DAY 9

Our view at the campsite   

  We woke up at 8:00 this morning. The boys headed straight over to the game room to play pool, but they don't open until 9:00. We ate some cereal and started washing clothes. They kept playing pool in between loads and I headed over to update the blog. They didn't have any church services here but we do hope they have them at the next campsite on Sunday. We finished the clothes and then headed to a town called Chico Hot Springs a few miles down the road. Thad, Mitchell, and Alexa are going to ride horses and the rest of us are going to check out the hot springs.
This is a picture of Thad showing Mitchell how to wash dishes....how funny is that?

 That is the only way that you could get in a pool here....it is cold, but better than Yellowstone. The nice cowboy, Ralph led Kali around on a horse when I asked him to let her take a picture with a horse. She was thrilled. She wanted me to tell him that she had rode a horse at her Uncle Steve's and wanted me to ask what the horses name was.( It was Tarzan)

Kali on Tarzan

Alexa on Reuben

Mitchell on Hercules

Thad on Chessie

                                                She also got to pet a little wiener dog.

 We walked through the gift shop because Thad and I are trying to find a nice sweatshirt, but so far we are to cheap to buy one. They are $45 here. I just think that is crazy....
                                                  We saw this in the resort

We headed over to find the springs and found a place to eat. They make you walk through a restaurant to get to the springs of course. We decided to get us something to eat and then get in the hot springs. They had elk and bison burger in the menu that I would have loved to have tried, but we decided to stick with pizza because we knew that we would eat that and I was hungry. We tried elk jerky a few days ago and it wasn't our favorite.  The pizza was good and then I took the kids over to get in the springs. I thought that it might be too hot for me to get in so I got at the end that was 2 feet and put Kali's floaties on and put Paisley in her float. I put my feet in so I could hang on to the float. They loved it. There is another section that is even hotter like a hot tub but they add cold water to the big side in the summer time.

This place used to be a hotel and now they have shops, horse riding, a place to stay, spa, saloon, and the poolside grille. President Roosevelt once stayed here. I thought that was pretty neat.  After they got finished riding horses they came over and finished up the pizza and we headed back for the RV park. We are going to stay here another night. We stopped by the store to pick up stuff for tacos. That is Mitchell's request for supper. I am ready for some grilled chicken so tonight it will be a variety. Tacos, chicken, salad, and baked potato. (yum,yum)  When we got back to the campsite, Kali and Paisley had fallen asleep.

 It didn't take long for Paisley to wake up but it didn't stop me from trying to get her to go back to sleep. Thad decided he wanted to take a nap as well. It didn't take him long to go to sleep and Paisley kept grabbing his face, so we got up and went outside. We ended up going to the game room and I updated the blog while Paisley played. I heard the kids outside so I motioned for them to come over to play pool. I thought that would be better that waking up Kali and Thad. We are going to head over to the gift shop to check it out before we get supper ready. We walked backed over to the camper and  Kali and Thad woke up so I started cooking tacos and Thad put the chicken on the grill. We had supper and then I headed to the bathhouse while the kids watched a movie. I came back and gave Paisley a bath while the rest of them played with a volleyball. Everyone else had their showers and then it was time for bed again.  The kids started working on their journals. I am going to put some random shots at the end of this post.

I forgot to tell you Kali thought that this guy looked like Buckshot.

Lawson taking out the trash

Our updated map