The Peavy Family Blog: Glacier National Park

Day three was spent in Glacier National Park and listening to the “Wednesday Wars” on CD during the driving between stops. I woke up early and headed out to take in the view of the lake from the lodge. When T-man woke up around 9:15, he joined me and we had granola bars for breakfast with orange juice and coffee while looking at the lake.

We headed out around 11:00 and headed on to the Going to the Sun Road. We made several stops and did a hike to Baring Falls and Sunrift Gorge. We went to Sun Point and got rained on. We ran back to the car. It was so great. We stopped at a couple visitors center. We made lunch out of what we had in the car. We took in the amazing vistas. We tried to see if we could rent kayaks on the west side of the park which was warmer, but still windy with whitecaps so no boat rentals to be had. But, T-man waded in and got his shoes wet and we enjoyed checking out the grounds.

We stopped in West Glacier for ice cream and realized that booking an affordable place to stay was practically impossible (now that we had internet). Marshall was able to help and got us a place in Kalispell. It did the job, but lesson learned. We tried to go to a local pizza place and it was packed so we ended up at Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen at T-man’s request. It was not lost on me that our experience 24 hours before in the park was quite the opposite of our experience in Kalispell. We wrapped up the night with a trip to the pool and hot tub and a few games of Uno. It was a fluid day and we enjoyed the day. I don’t know if T-man will remember this trip, but I certainly will.