Waterton National Park

After we got done with our backpacking we headed across the boarder into Waterton Canada. We were planning on spending a few hours seeing, then driving back and staying on the U.S. side in Glacier.

Kevin Ended up getting super sick as we were driving across the boarder. I've never seen anyone so sick. He threw up about a million times even though we hadn't really eaten anything all day to throw up. He looked miserable. Every time he would get back in the car he would throw up because of the smells and the motion. We pulled over a lot.

He asked if we could stay at a hotel that night instead of camping, he couldn't make it back to the U.S. that night. Sean and I ran around and found a hotel, and Kevin was able to head up to bed.

Sean and I were starving. We walked around the cool little town and got a super weird but extremely good pizza. We were laughing way hard the entire night but felt super bad because Kevin was so miserable. We felt bad having a ton of fun while he was dying.

Luckily the next morning he felt weak but a million times better. The road trip was back on.

We woke up the next morning feeling refreshed having showered, ate, and slept. We decided to take it easy and have some fun in Waterton so we rented a Surrey for the three of us. We road around the little town and realized that there really wasn't much to see on a Surrey. Yet we did find Cameron Falls, as shown above; I can't miss out on my families own waterfall. We saw a beautiful view of the lakes, and most importantly we went extreme Surreying by going down a little but super steep hill.

We also saw lots of wild life the town, hanging out next to restaurants and people. It's completely normal to have pets like this.

We finally headed out of Waterton back into Glacier. Our plan was now to head over to Washington. In order to do this we had to drive through the main part of Glacier along the Going-to-the-Sun Road. This is one of the most spectacular scenery's I've seen anywhere, and you don't have to leave your car. Its crazy.

The boys were amazed by the Sunrift Gorge, and wondered why anyone would backpack when there are sights like this ten feet from the main road. I still enjoyed the backpacking, but this gorge is pretty cool and it takes little effort to get to.

This is the Going-to-the-Sun Road and it really is amazing. I like our backpacking portion better because we were so secluded, but I still love that I was able to see this valley.

Afterwords we kept driving through Glacier and we ended up spending a night in Sandpoint Idaho. It was just a little town in northern Idaho surrounded by lakes and huge rivers. It was a nice relaxing morning that we could sit out in the sun for a bit on the docks.

Next we drove to Spokane, Washington where  none of us new of anything to do there. Sean and I were on activity control while Kevin was driving. Sean's find was a success. Mine was ridiculous.

Sean picked out a Zoological Park called Cat Tales that was really cool. We were able to see tigers and lions among other great animals. I would recommend it. We ended up seeing so much great wildlife and animals this trip. 

I loved the white tigers eyes, but mostly I loved Mufasa and his really long dreads in his hair. Sean has a video of all three of us trying to get the Lion to stand up. We are yelling, making baby noises, and rapping and we didn't know it was recording.

My awesome pick was a gondola that I didn't research enough on. When you picture a gondola you assume it goes up a mountain to some sort of cool overlook... not this gondola.

It was a gondola that takes you about 100 yards across a parking lot and buildings, across a little river that has plenty of regular lookout points, and then back across the parking lot. All in 25 minutes, you stop every 30 ft. for about 5 minutes each. Its about 100 degrees inside the gondola and I was getting super light headed and sick riding inside.

This wasn't one of my better ideas.

What was one of my better ideas was stopping and staying with my great uncle Donnie. He is one of the most entertaining and eccentric people that I know. We got to his house late at night and he showed us his large car collection, his photos, and then all the places we could choose to sleep. We way tired by then and excited to sleep, especially on a real bed.

When we woke up he entertained us more with his views on life while we made a nice wholesome breakfast of BLT's and homemade carrot juice.

He is a great man, and hilarious to be around. I'm glad Kevin and Sean made it through our visit. I thought it was a fun stop and he was nice and sent us off with all the super-foods we would need to continue our trip in top health.

To be continued...