Friday, August 22, 2008

Glacier National Park Vacation



Oh where do you begin. It was such a GREAT trip.
Our destination was Glacier but we also stopped at
Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Park in N. Dakota on the way out.


We did 3 hikes (3 miles, 2 miles and 1 mile each way).
Karlee hiked up on all three trips and some of the way down.
Sierra rode and slept on the way down. Karlee loved
having snowball fights in the snow fields and Sierra loved
seeing all the mountain goats.


Brother Larry and Todd got to go fly fishing and the
gals and I would play in the water, sand or rocks.
The other picture is Todd exploring/rock climbing at Twin Falls
on our last hike before heading home.


This is Karlee on our first hike once we got to Avalanche lake.
She took her hiking boots off and waded as soon as we got there.
Sierra just wanted to throw or eat rocks.


At the end of the days we hiked it was either an ice cream
stop or back to the condo to make fresh chocolate chip cookies.


We saw the world's fattest chipmunk who wanted to eat
Sierra's cracker and Karlee was so proud of her rainbow trout.

It was great to have my brother, AKA Uncle Larry, travel with us.

If you cannot not tell the gals absolutely adore him.



The mommy mountain goat and baby actually wanted us to
get off the rock so they could use it. It must have some type of
mineral in it because as soon as we moved they started licking it.



We are so blessed by our little gals. They did SO good.
We are definately training them to be outdoor enthusiasts.


This is almost to the top of the road going through the
park called the Going to the Sun road. It was amazing!! Behind
the gals you can see a herd of about 20 Big horn sheep.



While we were watching the herd this one came walking
around the corner about 20 feet from us.

We could not help but proclaim ~ "Our God is an awesome God"

The scenery was unbelievable. Pictures just cannot capture it all.

This was a saying in the visitor center at the top. May we never
fall into apathy in our lives or journey to Jesus!