Days Run Together!

Wednesday the weather looked rainy and I decided instead of going back into the park, we would go North about 75 miles into Canada. We have had passports since our son was in Iraq and I have never used mine, DH only using his this spring in Mexico. We set out and got through the Border Crossing with no problem. Pretty similar to the Patrol Check Points in western AZ and CA.
Right away I noticed that the highway signs were different! It took me a little bit to get used to that! I can say I drove 100 that day! We headed east on the first highway,stopping at a Goat Lick to see goats...no luck. We went into the quaint Ski Resort town of Fernie and had lunch at Rip N Richard's Eatery.
On the return trip, we ran across this Dowel Sheep standing on the side of the road.
Back across the border, we stopped in Eureka at a rather famous eatery for Ice Cream.
The Cutting Board has a chef/owner that created a "Big Bubba" Burger and was on the "Regis and Kelly" show in the best burger competition. They are a combination restaurant, having antiques, furniture and a Yarn shop in the same quarters. Interesting! Yesterday we drove Hwy 2 around the south side of the Glacier and around to the East Entrance at St. Marys.
The day started out really foggy because of the rain the night before but we weren't skunked in wildlife department and great pictures yesterday either. Just before lunch, on a hillside in the far distance, we saw a HUGE Grizzly bear.
He was way far away, you could see him pretty good with the binoculars and if ya zoom my picture up you see his big shape in the center of the grassy knoll! We had lunch looking over the hills around St. Mary's and then decided the day was getting away from us and we should go across the "Going to the Sun Road" again to save time. I drove it! Not a bad drive at all and this time DH got to have fun with the camera!
Every day I am amazed at the awesome Turquoise color of the waters here, and the vivid bright colors of the flowers.
Even this garter snake that he caught coming out of a rock had bright orange spots! He was pretty big too!
The fun continues today as we go to an Equestrian Competition at a famous horse arena. I was told that there's only two of these world cup competition locations in the US. The Rebecca Farms is one. They have flown in 18 of the horses for the 4 day competition. There's several catagories and the admission is free. I loved the horses and catagories at the Stock Show in Denver, so this will be a bonus. There's dressage and jump competition, kinda like watching agility for dogs, only bigger! Should be a good time.