2015 Summer Roadtrip: Day 45—Tuesday--7/28: Playing/exploring Whitefish, MT and Glacier National Park, MT

After a hearty breakfast of eggs, French toast/waffles and fruit, we loaded our bikes and drove to the park in cute Whitefish to ride the paved bike path along the Whitefish river and to the lake. As I was offloading the 4 bikes from the bike rack, Sarah walked down to the river and was greeted by many ducks. She had a mama duck and 9 tiny ducklings right next to her playing and looking to be fed. She was loving it. In the meantime, we parked next to some tennis courts that had about 8 boys playing street hockey with hockey sticks, a tennis ball, and 2 small goals (shoes—no inline skates). Ryan walked over and was watching them from outside the fence when he was asked if he wanted to play too. He was so excited and jumped right in. After a short time, he scored 2 goals and made some great defensive plays too. Both kids were having so much fun playing street hockey and playing with ducks at the river. Fortunately, the hockey game ended after about 40 minutes so we all went for a nice bike ride along the pretty river to the lake. At the lake, we all took off our shoes and socks and played in the water, enjoying the white puffy clouds and blue sky, pretty lake, and nice mellow music. It was very relaxing. After riding back to the car, we drove to the Maze. We went there last year and had so much fun. It’s a huge wooden maze (100 yrds x 100 yrds) that you have to make your way to 4 towers and stamp a card you have. Then you find the “hard way out” as well. You time stamp your card upon entering and exiting. Last year, Andrea/Sarah crushed Sam/Ryan. This year, Sarah/Sam crushed Andrea/Ryan. Sarah/Sam finished it in 14 minutes whereas Andrea/Ryan got stuck and took 42 minutes. It was really fun. Then we drove to Glacier National Park and hiked a pretty riverside trail in search of moose. We couldn’t find the moose but enjoyed the hike anyway. We took a picture on the bridge at the exact spot as we took last year and we were shocked how low the water is this year. It really was a bad snow year (except in Boston). We were going to drive to Logan Pass on the Going-to-the-Sun Road but there’s a fire still burning at Logan’s Pass. Time was passing so and the road was closed before the top so we opted to turn back. We ate elk and bison burgers for dinner and had freshly baked huckleberry pie a la mode for dessert. It was great.