Heather's Graduation and Yellowstone

The happy graduate.

We got to go horseback riding when our B&B host saw us petting the horses. He was injured and couldn't do his usual work, so he was happy to show us around and let us ride.

We chased down the river after this beaver, and finally it came right up on the bank to eat some plants.

After the Canadian Rockies we got to watch Heather graduate. Well, walk anyway. She still has one part time semester left. After her graduation we went to Yellowstone for a couple nights, and Sean came too.

The Canadian Rockies

We forgot the name of this lake, but it was on our 11 mile hike. Doesn't it look like the silhouette of a dog or wolf?
We got to walk up this glacier a little ways.
Mom and Dad in front of a glacier lake.
This is one of the highest waterfalls in Canada. I think it's called Taketawa or something like that.
We got our own private viewing of a black bear with her two cubs. They were right on the side of the road when we drove past, and the cubs were playing with each other.

After Glacier, we went to Banff NP where we went hiking, and camped for 3 nights. It was really beautiful, with lakes, and huge mountains, and wildlife, and wildflowers; but it was really cold too. We had to wear coats and thermalsat night, and slept with 2 sleeping bags. When we went to Jasper, we got rained out, so instead of setting up our tent in the freezing rain and eating canned soup for dinner, we stayed in a bed and breakfast, slept in nice warm beds, and took hot showers. And of course, only a few minutes after we arrived at the bed and breakfast it stopped raining.

Summer Trip 2008: Glacier NP

Lake McDonald on our first night in Glacier

A mountain goat

We saw a bigger variety of wildflowers than we've ever seen on a hike. And of course, dad took a picture of every single one of them.

This year we took a month long trip to the mainland. We flew to Utah and were there for a week and a half. I was at tennis camp for a week during that time, and almost died in 102 degree weather. It was pretty tough, playing tennis matches, doing drills, and conditioning(running and stairs) for 6 hours a day in the hot sun. But I survived and I met some nice people. Then we drove up to Rexburg to watch Heather's performance before heading up to Glacier NP. We were there for 3 days, then went to Banff NP and Jasper NP in Canada for a few days before driving back down to Rexburg for Heather's graduation. We helped her pack up and move out, and then we all (Mom, Dad, Heather, Allison, and Sean) went to Yellowstone for 2 days. Oh, we also got to go horseback riding when we stayed in a farmhouse bed and breakfast in Ashton, Idaho.