This year Dublin School ended early on Friday right before the Memorial Day weekend. I had been longing for a vacation away from home, so I booked tickets to Glacier National Park after Cindy's recommendation.
Here is the first blog of a series reports on our early summer vacation from Saturday, May 28 to Friday, June 3rd, 2011.
We flew into Kalispell, Montana's Glacier Park Airport, and had stayed at Best Western's Rocky Mountain Lodge in Whitefish, Montana for four nights. We visited Glacier National Park for the following two days, then spent one full day exploring Whitefish, Montana, a ski and summer resort town, and the nearby Flathead Lake, the largest natural fresh-water lake west of Mississippi River.
On June 1st, we drove seven hours to the west entrance of Yellowstone National Park, stopped by to see those thermal features especially geysers, patiently waited over one hour and fifteen minutes for Old Faithful to erupt. Lucky us, we got available room at Grant Village so we drove another 40 minutes to stay there for one night. The next day we visited Fishing Bridge Museum, Canyon Village, Norris Geyser Basin, and Mammoth Hot Springs. By 2:30 pm we were ready to say good bye to Mammoth and headed back to Kalispell.
We drove 89 North then 90 West, took a dinner break in Missoula, Montana, then kept driving along 200 West and 93 North, arrived at America's Best Value Inn at 9:30 pm. It was raining hard that night and the following morning when we left Kalispell and flew back to Columbus, Ohio. It was warm and shining like a real summer day in Ohio!
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