Nancy, Where Are You?

The day we left Apgar we walked down to a coffee shop to buy some breakfast but the English Muffin was 50 cents more than and McDonald Lodge so we decided to drive there for breakfast since we were going by it anyway on our way to Many Glacier. We stopped at Logan Pass and walked around for a little bit, we saw some Big Horn Sheep, then it was on to Many Glacier.
We ate lunch in the Many Glacier Hotel. We didn’t want to spend a lot of money so we ordered a salad listed on the menu under “starters.” When they served it it was about the size of the palm of my hand. We were starving when we got up from the table.
The scenery from the hotel was just breathtaking. There was a beautiful lake surrounded by mountains. Fabulous.
We decided to try to find our lodging, the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn. Before going to our room we sat down in their restaurant and ordered lunch!! Our room wasn’t nearly as nice as our old dorm room at Aspen. We threw our stuff down and set out on a hike. We wanted to do Iceberg Lake but it was too late in the afternoon to go up and come back plus there had been numerous sightings of a mother grizzle and her two cubs. We weren’t anxious to tangle with them. We decided to do Red Rock Falls instead. It was less than four miles. The falls were fabulous. They were so full of water and it was gushing all over the place. We were glad we hadn’t tried Iceberg Lake because it started thundering although we made it back before the heavens opened up. On our way back we saw a bird, a Ptarmigan, and her four chicks.
We did our laundry and then bought a cold sandwich at the campstore. We hung most of our laundry all over our room to dry.

The next morning we drove towards Canada. The wildlife that we saw along the way was cows! They were free range cows and they were all over the road just like the bison at Yellowstone.
When we crossed the border into Canada I got a tongue lashing from the guard. He said I ran through two stop signs. He said the fine for going through a stop sign in the park is $700. Thankfully he didn’t throw a fine on me. The lashing was enough.
We drove to the Prince of Wales Hotel which was build in 1927 overlooking Waterton Lake. It is historic but could use a LOT of updating. The hotel has huge picture windows that frame a seven mile long string of mountains. It was named for King Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. We went into the town of Waterton to have lunch. The town is small and really cute however the prices are sky high. The US Dollar isn’t worth much. We went to all the restaurants and looked at their menus. We couldn’t afford a hamburger for $14 so we ended up eating at Subway. It started raining so we decided to get on the road back to the US. We wanted to drive to East Glacier and see their lodge. We had read so many things about it. It was one of the best lodges we have seen. It is sometimes refereed to as The Big Tree Lodge because the lobby is lined with gigantic Douglas Fir trees. By this time it was late afternoon and we thought we’d better find a place to spend the night. There was only one room that we found around that area and it was $265, needless to say we decided to drive on. We were going to stay in Cut Bank but there was nothing there, we drove on to Shelby, nothing, so we ended up driving all the way to Great Falls, MT where we checked into the Motel 6. After our stay last night in the national park motor inn this place was like a palace.