Day 2 (also known as Chopper Day)

Date: Tuesday July 7, 2015

Location at the beginning of the day: Huetter Rest Area

Distance to drive:

Hours to drive: 4

Destination: Fish Creek Campground in Glacier National Park

Planned activities: arriving before it is dark

Quote of the day: While using the facilities in the restrooms at our campground the

three year old says, “Mommy, I have two private parts.  Good thing I don’t have four because that would be way too many!”  My response was, “Would it.”.  All I could think was, “Could she please use those parts to finish doing her business so that I can stop hanging out in this bathroom stale.  Wow, is Chad ever lucky we had girls.  I am going to spend half of my trip hanging out in bathroom stales with this little one and he gets to go to the bathroom in peace!”

Quote of the day number 2:  We arrive at Glacier National Park and the seven year old says, “This is not at all what I expected!” Even though we have been talking about hiking, playing at the beach and having campfires, I think she was under the impression that it was Glacier National Playground.  I will have to ask further questions to figure out exactly what she expected.  I did encourage her to write about it in her journal. 

What I have learned in the past 24 hours:  Upon further reflection (I told you there would be clichés), and there was lots of time while traveling today to reflect, waiting at the border, grocery shopping, stopping at three rest areas for bathroom and action breaks, stopping for fuel once and stopping to for dinner obviously adds up to seven hours.  Part way through today we decided that we would take less stops and try to be speedier when we stopped. 

Okay so I have already dropped the ball on one of my goals for the trip.  I wanted to take a picture of the sign at every rest area that we stopped in.  Last night we arrived well after dark at Huetter Rest Area to sleep.  I forgot to take a picture of anything in the rest area.  Oops!

We did manage to make less stops today, but our realization of how long it takes us to do anything came when we pulled into an abandoned gas station to use the trailer bathroom.  It took over 20 minutes for three of us to pee and then get back into the truck.

I warned about my rambling.  As we are sitting here, attempting to enjoy some adult time and writing our blog entries, Chad looks over and says, “Boy you write a lot.” 

For actual details about today you may want to check Chad’s blog www.epicorzenroadtrip.blogspot.ca although he is currently writing about yesterday.  One advantage to being the passenger is that you can, on occasion, do something while driving.  Although, being the passenger and the mom means that I am often contorting myself into crazy positions while attempting to pass things to children, pick up objects that have been dropped on the ground or find something that I know I packed inside the cab of the truck, but I just can’t seem to recall where I stashed it.

On that note, I will say goodnight.  I think it is 10:40 pm here, but I am not certain.  Some of our technology has changed to the current time zone and some hasn’t.