Glacier National Park, MT 2

This is where Glacier got even better! After staying in that resort lodge, everything seemed perfect.







St. Mary Lake, Mountains!
Mountains and Lake!














Same












St. Mary Lodge! We got a really good rate because it's crazy off-season. But the place was really nice, as you will see!











Here it be!
It was especially nice because we were basically staying inside the park, and it was virtually the only place to stay on the East side of the park, where all the most beautiful scenery is found.









Me, excited after a shower, Jumping in my towel. Looks like I'm wearing a pink shirt, but guess what! I'm not.

Then we watched 3 hours of Nip/Tuck and went to bed.


















Pretty














Laura inside trees again.
















Photographer!















We can't even remember where this is exactly. I think it's at St. Mary.















This is at St. Mary for sure.



















Big Mountain, Trees.



































Overlook














Two Medicine Lake in all its glory












Another Lake













Laura and another lake (not the above "another lake")

















OOOOH




















Horsies we saw when we were leaving. Located around Many Glacier.













Me, singing along to Jewel's "You Were Meant for Me" and crying with full emotion. A staple for any road trip/every day.

Yellowstone 3, Glacier National Park, MT

Mammoth Hot Springs. Real cold, still.




















We did this on the way out of Yellow Stone, on the way to Glacier.








The drive up to Glacier was pretty uneventful. We tried to stop in Missoula, MT, but there was some weird conference in town and there were no rooms! So we went on to Polson, MT, where we stayed in a motel on Flathead Lake. Waking up to that was nice.






There was a big "M" in the mountain. You could probably see it if this weren't blurry.











GLACIER NATIONAL PARK





The Eastern gateway into the park.














Here, BIG MOUNTAINS by a lake. Made me a man. So excited, I was thrown into a gleeful jumping fit.









Two Medicine. I highly recommend it.














There were effin cows in the road. As the ranger who pulled me over told me, they are dangerous.















My mom likes to talk to cows.
Anyone else out there crazy?















At first, I couldn't remember this picture. Then I saw myself peeing on the side of the road.













Laura inside a tree.















When we got to the end of the trail at Glacier (terminating at Avalanche Lake), we met these two hiking ladies from Sacramento who have been hiking buddies for over twenty years. They took these pictures of us, and it went like this:



"Oh, you want to take a picture of your backs? That's cute!"











"Now turn around!"



What they actually meant was for us to turn around on the bench and have our legs toward them....However, we opted for the "Glamour Shots" route, not even considering what normal people would do.









We didn't even realize what they were talking about until way later, even after we took pictures of them sitting like normal people.












Big Mountains and Lake.














Dense forest.





















Me taking a video of the waters!
















Glacier N.P. is highly recommendable.

Yellowstone 2

It was cold in Yellowstone. We knew it would be, and we were glad it was because it was much prettier because of it. HOWEVER, there were certain things that would have been a lot more pleasant, had the weather been a little more considerate of our feelings. READ ON:







Our gloves drying

































Chompers.












Here's the thing. We went to bed and we knew it was going to snow. We were prepared for that. What we weren't prepared for: asphyxiation. Snow fell over the flys that cover the air vents in the tent, weighing them down, and preventing air from circulating in the tent. We woke up, cold and gasping for air. "Why...are...weee....?" "I....don't...know...altitude?" "Go...back...to...sleep?" "What...if...we...die?" And so on and so forth. Needless to say, we survived.





Laura is sad.

















Let's light the fire!


















Sad little tent.














LET'S GO TO BREAKFAST!

















Here, I am amazed at the succulent flavors of toast and sausage links. Combined? Oh dear Jesus.
















Laura's brain cells are ruined. No oxygen is sad.


























Why even hike? Everything is right here, next to the toilets. FULL SERVICE.













Some animal.














A whole elk!















Bisons is A-OK.












Hibernation

Yellowstone National Park, WY

After our night in Cody, WY, it was all uphill.

Yellowstone is an amazing place, I have to tell you. Definitely one of the most gorgeous places I've seen.






Hot Springs are a natural wonder.

















The steam smells like sulfur.
Our faces express our inner thoughts.













Here's our campsite. It was really nice, actually.














I'm just killing time while our water boils.












"Oh hey, I didn't see you walk in..."














Old Faithful is like Angel's Kisses.


















It's like the door to Hell.













Here, Laura contracts a bacterial infection.













It's all the same, really. But I promise you it's pretty.















Uh oh.

















Big, life-changing hot spring.




















Some waterfall to something.













Our arrival in Yellowstone: Some lake with a mountain in the background--an exciting thing for an east coast boy. However, I had no idea what was in the future...