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Montana - Alberta - Idaho

 Monday we were in Glacier National Park at a campground.  When we got up that morning, we discovered bear scat (poop) on the road a few campsites away. This campground was a "hard-sided camper" campground only, because of lots of bear presence.
 

We had to run to the grocery store in St. Mary that night, since it's end of the season, the shelves were SO bare!


Tuesday we headed into Alberta

We went to Waterton Lakes National Park
 

We stopped by the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes, a beautiful building, but closed for the season so we couldn't go inside


The scenery at Waterton Lakes--just north of Glacier National Park and the Canadian "sister park" to Glacier National Park

We went to the Cardston Temple

And stopped by the grocery store for ketchup chips!

And we finally got this screen shot coming back into the U.S.! 

Wednesday we drove to Butte, Montana

It's where Evel Knievel is buried, right next to his grandparents. He was born in Butte, Montana


Thursday we went to Big Hole National Battlefield which is actually considered a cemetery

If you look closely, in the center of the photo, there are tipi frames where the Nez Perce were camped when they were shot in their tipis, men, women, and children were killed and their remains are there

On our way south, we saw a beaverslide, a way of stacking the hay up into huge haystacks, which was a Montana inventions since out this way winters are long and fierce and hay storage is a must

And then we got to herd cows! These guys were on the road as we were heading down it. We got to watch the dog and cowboy hard at work (look closely, the dog is herding the cows quite masterfully)


And we made it to Idaho!

Friday we went to the Idaho Falls Temple


Saturday we went to the Rexburg Temple

Then we visited the "TV Museum" which has one small section in it about Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the television. He was born in Utah, came up with the TV idea when he lived in Rigby, Idaho


It was quite the "homegrown" museum

 

We also visited the Sutton Cemetery to find some of the Mr.'s ancestors

Today we attended the Grandview Ward, Idaho Falls West Stake

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