Tuesday, May 18, 2010

We are still waiting for the part. For some reason it still won't be here today. So we're having them ship the part to Anchorage, Alaska and we'll have it fixed up there. It's taking too long to hold up our vacation.
So we are on the road again up to Glacier National Park in northern Montana. We made it as far as Great Falls, Montana and stayed overnight on a WalMart parking lot. There were about 10 campers there for the night. On the way we ran into a couple of thunderstorms. It was odd; just before the storms hit we would run into all of these big, black flying bugs that really messed up the windshield. And you know how Daddy is about a windshield! This happened 3 times now. They must be flying away from the storms.
This town is full of oil refineries and a smelting factory. The air smells from it and it is just across from the WalMart we're staying at. All of the creeks and streams on the way here are full and overflowing. It's been in the upper 70s and all of that snow has melted on the mountaintops. The creeks are muddy colored also. That's when the fishing isn't good. So we left the rental house at the right time because Daddy wouldn't be able to fish. He really like his waders. He never felt the really cold water with them on.
On the road here I tried to fix supper- chili and rice. It was quite difficult because the road was so curvy that I was feeling car sick and it's not easy to do whole grain rice in the microwave. There aren't even any directions on the box to do it that way. So it came out a little chewy. Daddy said it was fine.