Tuesday = Day 6

If you're counting, Tuesday was our 6th day, of 10, on vacation. We switched gears a bit, got up early and headed east to meet up for lunch with one of my friends. If you've been following along since early in this journey, I blogged about her in this post from last summer when we met up in Portland. This time we met in her stopping grounds. I know I felt it was totally worth the 2 hour drive to see her and her wonderful month old rainbow. She's so easy to chat with and it was an honor to just get to sit and cuddle with her little guy while he slept in my arms. Karleigh and Rylan were totally enamoured. I was so into the moment that believe it or not, I did not even take my camera out. I wouldn't have changed seeing them at all but it did bring some of those feelings to the surface again. Not the grief, but the feeling of really wanting another baby and wanting to complete our family. It was a great visit though and I left with a full tummy (pizza!) and a full heart!



We drove through the Blackfeet Indian reservation to get to where we met so on the way back through we stopped to snap this pic. The Indians and horses are all made out of reclaimed car parts!



We also stopped at Camp Disappointment which was the name that Lewis gave to the northern most point of his travels during the return trip. Named as such due to the fact that land acquisition from the Louisiana Purchase, wouldn't expand further than originally thought. It was quite interesting to see this landmark on the reservation. It was quite the "political statement" covered in graffiti, trash and who knows what else? and riddled with bullet holes... 'nuff said!



We decided to venture into one of the eastern entrances of the park that day but our navigator *cough cough* might have read the map wrong. So, we took the even more scenic route. Oh well! Because of it, the kids did get to see a marmot though!



Looking Glass road is a beautiful 10 mile section... none of it in the park! It did take us where we wanted to go though!



Our goal was to fit in the Running Eagle Falls nature hike and we accomplished that. We took the hike to the falls and it even involved crossing the river on a make-shift bridge. I was thinking "great, there's no way Karleigh will do this" but apparently her issue is with heights over water. She did it, no problem, which was a great relief because I really wanted to get close enough to the falls to feel the spray.



And we did! These falls are very cool they come from the top and then half-way down, they come from the rock wall. Very neat!


After that little hike we went in to check out Two Medicine Lake. Pretty little lake but it was super windy yet that had zero impact on the mosquitos and it was getting a bit late so we decided to head out and back to Whitefish.
As we were headed to our lunch date, earlier in the day, we passed this incredible waterfall so I wanted to make sure to remember to stop on our way home. The light was so great this time of the evening so I set up my tripod and actually used it! It's impossible to show the full height of this "birthday cake" waterfall as the kids called it. It started way up at the crest of the hill and rippled down the whole way. Really incredible!

Tucked beside it was another cute little fall so I wandered back in and took this one. I know I've said it before but I'll say it again, it was so great to not be fighting any crowds. There was a huge turn-off there but we were the only people at the time!

Last but not least, as we were headed along the southern most tip of the park we spotted these guys... and a few more hanging out! The pic quality isn't all that great because they were quite a distance but they were still on our list of "would like to see's" and we did!

They certainly don't look the bright white, this time of year, that you imagine! They looked hot and itchy and kept kicking the dirt, rolling and scratching!

And another baby! We got to see so many young animals with going early in the season. Cute huh!?!

On that note, we headed home and crawled into bed for a wonderful night's sleep! The kids wanted a hang around home and relax day for Wednesday so that's what we had planned and what they were looking forward to. That'll be the next set!