Canada!!

On July 5th, we departed for our trip to Canada.  The plan was to go to Mike and Cristal's for a few days and Pat and Darrell meet us in Idaho Falls and go from there.

On July 2nd the air conditioning went out at the house.  We had been having 105 degree days, so there was no way we could leave with no A/C.

Got a new furnace and A/C installed on the 4th and left on the 5th.

Spent a day with Cristal and Mike and grandkids, then left on Saturday for Canada.  We saw so many beautiful places and had a great time.

The first night, July 6th, we stopped in Missoula, Montana.  Always fun to look around and see the country side.

Missoula had this hand card carousel in one of their parks.  It was the number one thing to see in Missoula.  A man wanted Missoula to have a carousel, so he enlisted lots of volunteers and taught them how to carve the horses and animals for the carousel.  Hundreds of volunteers did all kinds of different things to bring the construction together.  There was a sign on the door going in to the carousel that they needed volunteers to learn how to maintain and run the carousel so they could help with the carousel.

There was a cool little gift store at the carousel and I bought a Christmas advent calendar of a Christmas tree. 

Sunday, July 7th in Glacier National Park.

 

First pictures, Glacier National Park.  It was beautiful!!  So much water, waterfalls and lakes.

We spent all one day in Glacier National Park.   After driving all the way through Glacier, and in to Canada, we went to the Canadian side of the park, called Winterton Park.  There was a huge hotel or lodge built there by the railroad many years ago.

Darrell spotted a bear down the hill from the lodge.  He saw something swimming in the lake and at first thought it was a beaver, until he started getting out of the water and it kept getting bigger and bigger.  Finally the bear was out of the water and he was impressive.

Saw some animals too in Glacier National Park.

This lodge or chateau was on top of the mountain at Waterton Lake, which is just over the Canadian border from Glacier National Park.

This is where Darrell saw a bear.  We were looking at the lake from up on the hill and Darrell saw something swimming across the little channel.  At first he thought it was a beaver, but as it started getting out of the water, it kept getting bigger and bigger.  It was pretty cool.


Spent the 2nd night in Pincher Creek.  Small little farming community, but still nice.  Lots of mosquito's.