Well, trip followers and e-mail hackers, our last few days wound down at Glacier National Park. This has been fantastic and we do hope to come back and do some back country camping without the kids… If only we knew people who might want to watch them! Despite anything you read here, they are delicate little angels and a joy to take care of. August 13, 2015 – Still in Glacier – Full Day #3 Today we had planned to…
The saga continues. We are still feeling smug, maybe not QUITE as much before as our children are acting like wildebeests, and we are getting looks from people. But still no major disasters! Okay, onward… August 10, 2015 Great Falls, MT to St. Mary, MT (and for all intensive purposes, Glacier National Park! Hoot hoot!) We awoke after a night of listening to Zoe scream for unclear reasons. We even did all our parental tricks on her – gave her…
Hello friends and family… We wanted to send e-mails every so often on this trip – partially because we don’t post on Facebook during trips for the most part (lest burglars figure out we are across the country), and partially so this can be a record of our trip!
7/11/12 Started the morning a little later by bribing the kids with granola bars and Bubble Guppies on an iPhone (how did parents do these trips without technology?). Our Rapid City exploration began at Storybook Island, a free park full of characters from all of the old childhood stories which we realized that we hadn’t been telling our kids and don’t remember. Sarah went there on a family trip and hated it back then, but thought it was because she…
7/9/12 Drive from Whitefish to Bozeman today. We woke up early and got the heck out of Whitefish (fancytown). Breakfast was at McDonald’s, a sign of our downward spiral. We drove back up to Glacier, obsessed with the one trail we couldn’t get parking for yesterday. We did today! So we did the Trail of Cedars and Avalanche Lake trail. The hike was pretty good, only a little over 4 miles. Sarah thought it was pretty boring (“this is just…
7/6/12 Braden actually waited until 7:00 to get up this morning, so we all got to sleep in a little before we got started with packing and loading up for Whitefish. After several stops for doughnut holes and coffee, we were on Going to the Sun road. It started off pretty level with a beautiful view of St. Mary Lake (13 miles long and 289 feet deep) as we curved around. We parked at Sun Point, shortly onto the road…
7/4/12 So the day began with the usual 6 am wake up from the kids. Ate some crappy continental breakfast and played in the pool, and we were off. We did stop at the Faster Bassett, a local coffee place AND brewery. And at 10 am there were plenty of people buying both beer or coffee or both. Temp: 75 degrees (yeah, you’re jealous). Headed up 3 hours to St. Mary, which is at the Eastern edge of Glacier National…
7/2/12 We left just after noon on Monday, July 2nd, gassed up, grabbed Culvers and started driving. We headed up to Wausau and then over to Eau Claire and Minneapolis, finally stopping for dinner in St. Cloud at a McDonald’s with a playground. We stopped at two McDonald’s before calling around and finding one that did have a playground and going to that one. Yes, we are tools. Did not know – you need socks to go in one of…