ROAD TRIP

July 5, 2009- To start the day off Benson took one look in his cup and dumped the entire glass of milk onto himself. Not sure what he was thinking. Then when Kent was getting his breakfast, he dumped all of his potatoes and pancakes onto the ground. Before the trip, I measured everything into bags so that we knew exactly what we had for food. So we didn't have a lot of extras. We went on to see North Cascades National Park. It is one of the least visited parks in the U.S. and one of the best in my opinion. They have a lot of glaciers, bears, hiking, etc. Everything you want to see in one trip. After spending the afternoon there, we went on to Winthrop. It was a quaint, old town so we decided to stretch our legs for a bit. Benson loved the gold mine water exhibit they had so of course he had to get wet. There were a lot of people around watching him and what does he decide to do now? He walked over to the dog bowl, looked at it, and decided to put his entire left foot in the water. Everybody laughed, including us of course. Kent had placed some of our towels and clothes on the bike rack to dry while we were walking around. When it was time to go, we forgot about them. We drove down the road a few miles when we decided to stop for a bathroom break. Wandering from store to store to find one, I finally noticed them. Surprisingly, they were all still there. We got back on the road to head towards Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. When we arrived, it was pouring down rain. There was a lot of thunder and lightning as well which scared Benson. We don't see too much of that in San Diego. To camp that night, we found a picnic shelter and put our tent up under that. Quick thinking on the husbands behalf.


July 6, 2009- Well there was a lot of wind and thunder last night and we were very surprised that Benson slept through the entire night again. Kent and I woke up a lot because of it. Glacier National Park is only about a 4 hour drive today. We have always wanted to see it and have talked about it as far as we can remember. With our maps in hand of the park, we debated what would be the best hike. So that night we went for a bike ride down to the glacier fed river, and let Benson throw rocks in it. He could have stayed all night just picking up one rock after another. We headed back to cook dinner and to make sure that nothing was left out. The campground where we stayed in the park had the most bear warning out of any of the places that we had been. It is one thing seeing them everyday in Alaska to seeing one while you are camping or hiking.