We did it! We finally made it to Glacier National Park in Montana. I can tell you that it was worth waiting for. We had planned on going last September/October, but Jared & Catherine's wedding celebration took precedence, which was ok with us.
One reason for going to Glacier this year is that in December Alan and I will be celebrating our 50th Wedding Anniversary and we wanted to get away and do something fun together. It isn't easy to celebrate an anniversary two days after Christmas so we decided that our get-away-trip should be celebrated early. We will still do something to celebrate later this year.
Thankfully, Ryan went to Glacier with us. He has a nice Sprinter camping van he named Hellbender (a salamander) that is his home away from home. He was able to park it at all of the hotels we stayed in, thankfully.
He eats and sleeps in his van when he needs to. Having Ryan with us was a blessing because he's been to Glacier three or four times and knows the best places to visit.
On our first full day in the park and we drove to Many Glacier. There was a nice lodge there that we visited while waiting for our boat tour on Swift Current Lake. It was a short tour, but we enjoyed being on the boat and being able to see the views from the lake. The weather was spectacular.
On the way back to our hotel, Ryan was searching for a bear from the back seat of our van. He told Dad to stop when he saw two ears poking up from a bush. Ryan then saw the head of the bear pop up, but then he disappeared and we couldn't see him from the car. Ryan jumped out of the car, crossed the road, then started searching for the bear. After spotting him, Ryan motioned for both of us to go see it for ourselves. When we got close enough to see him, he was about 40 yards from us. It was a black bear.
We were a little too close to the bear for my comfort, but he just stared at us and didn't seem aggressive at all.
We also stopped at a clearing down the road because an Elk was spotted in the distance. Ryan pulled out his binoculars and let Alan and I take a turn using them. He was a big, majestic bull. I couldn't get a picture of him because he was too far away from us, but he looked something like this:
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