"Life is a highway...."

Most of the trip from the US border to Kalispel took us through the Blackfoot Indian reservation. (Blackfoot Nation). Indian days are July 12-15, if you're interested. Montana Vortex - House of Mystery! Come on, doesn't that seem cool?

And the eagle flies, with the dove -

The deer on our porch in Waterton. Buck and Doe - a photographic print 2008

The Prince Edward (I think) hotel/lodge. Closed for the winter, I think. They could have filmed the Shining here, seriously.

scenery

The "Welcome to the Blackfoot nation" statues. RKZ was impressed by the flags - they are wrecked by the wind out there.

Buck's favorite part of the hotel room was jumping from bed to bed.

He couldn't always make the distance.

So, he would crawl to my side the next time.

Bed fort.

Misplaced pic of deer crowd

I just accidentally looked into another blog and decided that bloggers are vain. Including me. It's funny that we think that anyone wants to hear about what we're doing. Right now, I am thankful for my family who mainly reads this to make sure we aren't dead, I think :) Also, I will work on not sounding pompous and all "finding the meaning of life-ish."

Back to Montana - sorry I skipped a day. I will have more time to blog tomorrow, so I'll finish the story even if you won't be able to read it until Monday. We detoured through Waterton Lakes Provincial park. When we woke up, there was a crowd of deer hanging out on the porch outside of our room. Buck (no pun intended) really wanted to get closer to the deer, but wild animals still freak me out, so he had to settle for about 3 feet away. When we walked over to the same restaurant for dinner, the deer seemed to follow us and the other patrons were very excited about that. It was a quiet, yummy dinner and I HIGHLY recommend a trip here. If you all come and visit, just think of the fun we'll have!

After breakfast, we actually headed back to the border crossing which had been closed. This time a nice, older border guard was there and seemed shocked that we had any trouble the day before. He gave us a good recommendation as to another way to travel (He mysteriously just said, "Duck Lake"). Turned out to be a side highway.

Most of the rest of the trip was good. We did have a few white out conditions from snow blowing into the road near the summit. We traveled past Glacier Nat'l Park and saw a few timeshare places that we wanted to immediately visit (but they were all back in the woods somewhere). One is Glacier Wilderness Resort. Click on the site and check out the cabins! Doesn't that make you smell the summer and just want to visit?

Anyway, we did arrive in Kalispel, MT around 3 pm. There is enough about Kalispel for tomorrow's post. The grill alone could have it's own post :) maybe I'll get RKZ to be a guest blogger tomorrow. See ya!