Our Trip to Glacier

We went to Glacier National Park this last weekend. We stayed at Kalispell We had 2 queen beds in our room so our plan was to have Natalie & Riley sleep in one of the beds together and have Corbin sleep with us. Well, by the time we got to Kalispell we looked for a place to eat and couldn't find a place that was open. We finally realized that we were in Mountain time again (1 hour later than what we expected). The only place we could find that was open was McDonald's. So by the time we got back to the Hotel Natalie was WIRED. We could not get her to stay on bed. So we had to call down to the front desk and ask for a portable crib and decided to put Corbin in the bed with Riley. Things got a lot better from there.

Our first stop was Apgar Village where we sat on Lake MacDonald enjoyed the views, let the kids threw rocks into the lake, then sat and enjoyed Huckleberry shakes.

Avalanche Creek was our next stop where we had a picnic. The kids really enjoyed it. This is where the road was closed so we couldn't go any further so we headed back down and stopped at some of the scenic points. One of the points was a set of rapids. The kids were not too fond of them so we didn't stay long.

We then went back down to MacDonald lodge where we took a scenic boat ride of Lake MacDonald. The boat ride was beautiful but the kids were more interested in walking around not just sitting. So Daniel and I took turns walking around the boat with the kids. The 2 kids again went down by the water and threw rocks in the lake or in Natalie's case she just played in the sand. This is MacDonald Lodge as we are coming back to dock.

In 2003 there was a forest fire that came up over the mountain so before it could spread another fire was started to protect all the cabins along the lake. This is a picture of the charred trees.

These are called "the red bus". They are old fashioned buses that
Glacier uses to take tourists around the park.

Then Sunday morning we met up with Corbin's siblings for a few hours. That was lots of fun. He has 3 full siblings and 2 half.

(top) this is "Amy" the Mom who adopted ALL 5 of Corbin's siblings. What a woman. Those kids are WILD!! Let me just say that she really has her hands FULL!!

Ok, let me see if I can remember all the names...starting at the top of course if Riley, then the Blondie is "Hurricane" Hunter (that is what they call him because he is so wild), then the brown haired boy is "Val" , then Meeka (she is the youngest of the siblings excluding Corbin) then Natalie, Krista, and the one holding Corbin is Shantell. There I did it. Whew!

Then we headed home. We stopped at a rest stop and had a picnic, let the kids run and headed home again. It was SOOO nice to be home. 4 hours there and 4 hours back didn't make the kids all that excited. They were ready to run after 1 hour in their car seats. We did have a lot of fun and the park was fairly quiet. Actually everyone was hiking or biking up to Logan pass which is one of the points we could not access due to road closures and road construction. This was also the first weekend the lodge was open to the public. So it wasn't all that busy which was nice.