Glacier National Park - August 2013

I've been meaning to post about our trip to Glacier National Park, but with our upcoming move, I got a bit behind. It was a really fun vacation. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring along my travel journal, so I'm going to try to remember all the stuff that we did.

We decided to fly from Seattle, rather than drive, in order to give ourselves more time in the park. The downside to this meant that we had a lot of stuff to bring on the plane, and wound up with two 45 lb suitcases plus a duffel bag, plus our kid carrier backpack and car seat. The upside was a very short (1.5 hour) flight instead of two days of driving each way. We took a small turbo prop plane, which was fun because we got to walk out on the tarmac. We flew into the incredibly tiny Glacier Park International Airport. We then had to call to be picked up to get our rental car, which turned out to be a one man operation. Penelope was a bit confused by the whole car rental thing, and she was convinced during the whole trip that the guy's name was "Thrifty" and that he was personally loaning us his car. Anytime we referred to Thrifty as "they", Penelope quickly corrected the pronoun use: "no, him!" Anyway, we rented the car, and managed to pack all our stuff into it. Then we drove to nearby Kalispell, had lunch at IHOP (yum), and picked up some fuel for our camp stove (another downside to flying, fuel is not allowed on the plane) and groceries. We finally got all our purchasing finished and drove to Glacier National Park, about 45 minutes away.

All of the photos from our trip are in our Glacier National Park album. Follow the links below for the day by day account of our trip, with some photo highlights.