Yellow Stone

We had a fabulous time in Yellow Stone! We saw......

Mama and baby birds

a fox

a black bear

bison in the road

elk

Grizzly bear

animals in the road again

Some pretty scenes, two mama bears with cubs but they were too far away for a pictures to turn out, a wolf, a couple of bald eagles, and deer.

Bob went on and on about all the bikers in the park. The "brotherhood" so I just had to get this shirt for him.

The motorhome!

One of Bob's friends at work graciously let us borrow his motorhome for our trip. We crammed 7 people in a 6 person max rig as well as our puppy. We had a great time in it, but it didn't come without it's adventures.

About 100 miles after we passed Great Falls, Montana, Bob suggest that I drive so he could catch up on some emails. Well all of a sudden I here this tear and I immediately know that it was the door on the motorhome. We had been having a tough time with it all trip as it just would not close right. Bob even took it part of it apart to add some more screws so it would hang better and close correctly. We had to slam it shut and even then it didn't want to work half the time.

Bob walking back to the motorhome with the outside piece of the door that tore off.

We had to tie rope and a really thin elastic cord around the door to keep the insolation from blowing away when the duct tape wouldn't stick.

After leaving Waterton we decided to head to Yellow Stone because the kids had never been and it had been a really long time since Bob and I had been, like I was in 5th grade. That drive to Yellow Stone drug on forever! It was to be a nice 8 hr drive that took us over 13 hrs. The door blew off, we kept having to stop and fix it, the hazard lights and blinkers when out and then we couldn't find a place to stay the night went we pulled into West Yellow Stone. Everything was FULL FULL FULL! We finally did find a place on our way out to Idaho. Whew! By then we were all tired, exhausted and stressed as the motorhome was now having some issues with gas. YIKES!

We still had a great time!

Old Chief Mountian

Old Chief is a landmark in southern Alberta even though it is in Montana. Just had to share it!

Waterton nature pictures

These were taken by Caleb, Liz, Ben and Tracy

O Canada part 3 Waterton

After the Matkin reunion we booked 2 nights at the Waterton National Park. It's the Canadian side of Glacier National Park in Montana. My family loves Waterton. Whenever any of us are in the area and the weather is somewhat decent we have to go to Waterton. The deer roam free through out the town and there are some great places to hike and skip rocks.

Our first night there. It was such a beautiful sun set. We missed most of the great colors because we had to run back to the motorhome to get the camera.

Playing in Red Rock Canyon. I use to got down this in my swimsuit a little farther down it. It was cold water but always fun.

Hiking at Red Rock Canyon.

Caleb helping Tabi as we played in the creek at Red Rock Canyon.

Cameron Falls, right by our campground.

That is the Prince of Wales hotel on the hill.

We road our bikes our last night in Waterton to go skip rocks at this great place that the Bob and the kids found but we found that it was already taken by all these bucks. They just watched us watching them and didn't care we were even there.