Top 3 Favorite Memories from Glacier (in no particular order) Abby: the active beaver pond at McDonald Creek where we saw a river otter Grinnell Lake hike - ending in the snow and seeing the river that had changed course to now go through the forest Wildflowers on the beaver pond loop - it was early in the season so the shorter ones were out - later in the season the showier, taller ones come out. Jim: Redrock Falls - amazing cas...

Day 6 - Many Glacier Hotel I saw in the paper this morning that the storms we just experienced were responsible for both a duo of tornadoes and flooding of the Missouri River. Swiftcurrent lake outside our hotel rose about a foot with all the rain, and all the streams were running full. This morning broke sunny again though, and though a cloud bank rolled in for awhile, we spent the day almost exclusively in the sunshine. Amazing. We were up early to get in a l...

Day 2 - Lake McDonald, Glacier NP Kerry made us breakfast before we took off for the drive up to Glacier. Today we listened to not quite half of Lunch Money by Andrew Clements on the beautiful drive up past Flathead Lake. My favorite road sign along the way was, "Be Polite Do Not Tailgate". We stopped in the Apgar Visitor's Center to pick up Junior Ranger packets for the boys and get some activity suggestions for our stay here on the West side. Lunch...

Day 1 - Here we go! We got out the door last night about 9pm and drove to our farmhouse in Parkdale. It was good to be able to get out of the house and get that first hour of driving out of the way while the kids slept. I was totally exhausted from going non-stop for the past few days to complete my To-Do list, but also totally wired from having to keep myself going. I ended up driving while Jim and the boys slept. This morning I had a few things to finish u...