Today was the first day we had just a slight bump in the day. First of all, we left our hotel in West Glacier this morning and didn't feel like breakfast right away. We got into the park and wow, we forgot about eating. Around 1:00 it got to be that both of us were really getting hungry and there was not an abundance of places to eat! Finally we came onto a lodge that had a restaurant so we went in.
At that point we would have paid $10 for a package of crackers so it didn't matter that it was probably more expensive than we wanted. Went in, sat down, and sat and sat and sat. Looking around, we were one of only 3 tables in the place that had someone sitting at them. Two waitresses and a hostess along with someone who I didn't know what his job was, was not enough to take care of us I guess.
After being noticeably ignored by the taller of the two waitresses, the other one was clearing a table behind me. I turned around and said "are you our watress?" She said she wasn't but that she would send "our server" over right away after I asked her with just a slight edge in my voice if ANYONE was.
The same girl came back a couple minutes later saying now that she was indeed our waitress. Ok, so here we go, we are both starving, no other choices for someplace to eat so we were just captive to the bad vibes in that place. I ordered something I have never seen on a menu before.......Elk brat sandwich. Yes, I ate elk sausage! It was actually very good.
We both enjoyed our lunch and was happy to be back in the car afterwards. We had already reserved a room for tonight at a place called Circle R. They had explained they had nothing less than third floor and no they didn't have an elevator. They did, however have some "rustic cabins" off site that they could let us have for $89. Ok fine, we'll take it......uh huh
We get here today, find the motel, check in and the girl at the office gives us directions to drive to our "cabin"......directions? we need directions? Off we go.
We got lost, could not find the "rustic cabin" so we stopped a passing deputy sheriff and he says "follow that dump truck, he is going there".........ok, now I know we are in trouble.
We get there, it's in the middle of a construction site, it isn't either rustic OR a cabin!
That is the corner of our "rustic cabin" that you can just see on the left. gravel road, dirt, dirt, bumpy, gravel, dirt right up to the door.
There she is, our rustic cabin!!! Right in the middle of a construction site!!! We unloaded our stuff, sat inside for a few minutes, realized we didn't even feel safe since it was so isolated from the rest of town. We got in the car, and went searching for a place for dinner. On the way back into civilization, we saw a cute little motel named "Dancing Bears Inn" and it had a great big "vacancy" sign in the window. Hello! We are moving. Wayne left me at the Dancing Bears to get the room, and went back to the "rustic cabin" to load our stuff back into the car and came back to our new room.
OK, now I'm ready for a fight. I'm going to get our money back from that first place, this is ridiculous. We marched in, and began to tell them why we weren't staying there. With no problems, no questions and no resistance, they refunded our money and off we went. Frustrated! I was all ready for a fight!
Now we are both really approaching exhaustion so we found a market close by, bought a few things and came back to the room and fixed our own meal. The new room is $10 cheaper and has wi-fi internet and the other place even wanted to charge us $6/hr for access that we couldn't even get out there in our "rustic cabin"
Oh well, we are fed, movie made of today's video, images downloaded and here we are together again on the blog. All is right with the world again.
Let us see what we saw today............
Beautiful, huh?
This was found when we pulled off the road and just walked down a little bit and there was the clearest water I have ever seen in nature. It was in parts about 10 feet deep and you could see clear to the bottom, it was beautiful.
Guess what we found when we arrived at East Glacier? Amtrak!! Can you believe it? We can actually take Amtrak to this beautiful place. This is our car in front of the station. There are only two trains a day so it was closed when we were there.
This is the Amtrak Station from the front.......
OK family and friends, I am pooped and need to chill a bit now. Hope you all enjoy today's pics and forgive my rant about our little "bumps" in the road that we had today.
Love you all and see us here tomorrow same place, not sure about same time!!!
The travelers......Wayne and Colleen
