Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Glacier National Park

Next we went across the border and stayed a few days in Glacier National Park,
first on the east side and then on the west side.  The scenery was incredible!!!




 This was our cabin on the east side of the park.  Note our new car parked alongside.





 We stopped here for lunch so Greg could have some huckleberry pie.
 And we had dinner here for more huckleberries.
 It had rained overnight and we awoke to rainbows right outside our cabin.

We drove over the "Going to the Sun" highway which was built in the side of the mountains in the 1930's.  It's only open a few months of the year because of the high altitude and lots of snow.










 We stayed in a cabin on the property of this lodge on the west side of the park. 
The lodge is lovely but the cabin was a dump.



Monday, July 8, 2013

Waterton Lakes

Waterton Lakes straddles the border between Canada and the US.






 Check out the bear on the hillside above the road. 
We saw many warnings about making noise while you were hiking to scare away the bears. 
The wildflowers were beautiful!




 
 

 We had tea in this hotel and the view was the two photos below.



Saturday, July 6, 2013

Drumheller

Drumheller is a small town in Alberta, east of Calgary. 
It's famous for its dinosaur museum and hoodoos (weird sandstone formations).






This is the valley where many of the dinosaur remains were found.


 The town is really into dinosaurs.  You can even climb up into this one below.


 The museum has re-creations as well as actual bones and fossils.