CANADA!!

Yesterday, we finished up our Glacier tour with a couple more waterfall hikes and a look at the Sunrift Gorge. We also stopped by the Many Glacier entrance and saw lots of mountain goats and bighorn sheep.

Sunrift Gorge

St. Mary waterfalls

View of St. Mary lake and the mountains

Even with all of this excitement, we finished around 4pm and were only 15 miles from the border. So we decided to head to Canada for dinner. This was not quite as easy as we hoped. Apparently, it is strange for two young American women to want to go into Canada only for dinner. When we stopped at the Canada border, we told our story, expecting him to let us through. Instead, he asked us to get out of the car and go upstairs to talk to another officer. After more questions from a very grumpy Canadian official, he did a background check on us! We must look like drug dealers... Finally, we were let into the country, and Katie got a stamp commemorating her first trip out of the U.S.

CANADA sign

On the way out, we figured we would have no trouble. We are U.S. citizens after all. However, once again we were wrong. This time the US border guard asked us to hang on for a second after hearing our story, left his booth, then returned to tell us to park the car and follow him. We were ushered into a glass room with a screen wall between us and the border patrol, asked to empty our pockets and then bombarded with questions. This officer was a little friendlier though and after 10 minutes we were freed.

Today, we decided to detour on our way to Yellowstone to see a ghost town. Our first choice was Copperopolis, however, we discovered that nothing was left of this town but a water tower showing where it once stood. Disappointed, we decided to continue onto another, Castle Town. Once again, this was a disappointment because it was on private property, so we were not able to leave the road to get a good look at the old, crumbling buildings.

Part of Castle Town

Trying to get back to real civilization was quite the chore as well. Our GPS decided it was a good idea to take us through a national forest. The road was terrible and we almost got stuck in the mud. We did discover that the best place to see wildlife is in a national forest, on a road that no one drives. We saw a young Grizzly bear along with numerous elk and deer.

The Grizzly that ran across the road in front of us

To follow up our shout-out to Jake, we want to thank all of our wonderful fans. You guys are truly great!!! However, some comments would be nice so that we know this is actually being read (we spend a lot of time writing and uploading pictures). :)