Magnificent Glacier Park

There is only way to describe this place.  Magnificent!  It is the most beautiful place we have ever been.  The guide book says that this park is one million acres of the finest mountain scenery in America and it's so true.

Kathe and Jim went off this morning to explore the East Glacier side of the park leaving me with my new friends Jodie and Ken for the day.  It's a good thing I had a baby sitter because Kathe and Jim didn't get home until 7 PM.



We plan to stay in the Glacier area for four nights, but it really won't be enough time to see and do everything.  Today Kathe and Jim concentrated on the East Glacier side of the park.

First they drove to Many Glacier to see the lodge which is designed to look a Swiss Chalet in the "American Alps."  It is in a beautiful setting by Lake Sherburne.  There are thousands of wild flowers everywhere along the roadside.  The trees, the mountains, the lakes, it is impossible to explain what it is like here.  Never have we been anywhere as beautiful as this.  The pictures can't capture what our eyes have seen today.   And we can't even download them because we have no cell coverage.

At St. Mary a bear ran across the road right in front of the car.  There are warning signs about the bears everywhere, but we never expected to see one right on the entrance road.

Kathe and Jim drove several miles on the "Going to the Sun Road" stopping for a picnic lunch at Rising Sun. They took a three mile hike to Virginia and Saint Mary's Falls and were surprised to see that it was already 5 o'clock and time to head back home.

I've gotten kicked off the Internet twice now so I better hurry and post the pictures I was able to download before I  have to start the whole thing over again.