Embroidery. Who would of thought that 4 kids, both boys and girls could be so into it! It has been the activity of the week for sure! And I had to dust off my rusty skills (and old old projects) to teach them!
I was quite into how cool the cotton’s looked scattered over the floor!
Ashton really wanted to finish this one. I probably started it when I was about his age!!
Sequoia found the embroidery box from when I was a kid, with a bunch of half finished projects. She wanted me to teach her and it has ended up being the activity of the week. All 4 of the older ones have been putting in a very diligent effort!
I feel like we are an oddity at times. 5 kids. Who even does that?! And they play the old fashioned way. Not many do that, it seems. That they could have fun running together, and ride bikes without helmets? I love it. It is satisfying and makes me feel like all is well in the world when they play like kids should play…..
While at our campsite, the kids whittled these sticks to make crosses. They were very proud of them. And then we remembered the anal-retentive nature of crossing the border and told the kids they couldn’t bring them home. They were pretty disapointed, so made sure I took a picture of them instead.
I have taken a bazillion photo’s this summer of all our adventures. It’s pretty tricky to choose one for my photo a day project. I am going to bombard you with lots of photo’s under the ‘blog’ tab of my website 🙂
But in the meantime, we have set of on the Road to the Sun today. A very famous road in the U.S, that took 23 years to build up over Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana. We did the tourist thing and stopped at all the pullouts. This one was a waterfall, complete with barriers to keep you off the rocks. But behind those barriers my husband finds cool stuff. There was a big ledge with an overhang that Kent took the 4 older ones under, and also into this kid sized hole in the rock. I tried to pretend I wasn’t with them, as Chelise and I waited on the viewing platform above, whenever fellow tourists wondered out loud how they got down there…..
We set out to go explore the Road to the Sun. This is a stunningly beautiful corner of the world, and extremely popular. We choose to come here this week because most American schools are back in session, and we were hoping for a quieter experience.
The road itself is a major engineering feat, that took 25 years to build. The ruggedness of the mountains is awe inspiring, even shrouded in smoke. We stopped at a bunch of the scenic pullouts. Waterfall #1.
Waterfall #2. Kent and the kids climbed over the barrier to explore a little more. River guide Dad, was explaining some hydrology to them!This big overhanging rock, beside the waterfall, hid them from view.It was kinda embarrasing hearing fellow tourists exclaim and wonder ‘how they got down there’. I just pretended I didn’t know them!
And as we climbed higher, we got more of a sense of the grandness, and how crazy and pig headed we people can be about getting a job done. In this case, making a road up here! Shame about the visibility!As we neared the top, the smoke thinned out a little and we could see the mountains more clearly.Wildlife sightings are always a highlight for us.
And then we got to Logan Pass. Oh boy. I like the outdoors. A lot. But sharing it with strangers? Not so much. The parking lot was full, and it was a mass of humanity. It was my turn to be pig headed and I didn’t want to give up the idea of going for a hike. So we joined the 4000 other people. I avoided taking pictures with toooo many people in them. Often, on these kinds of trails, people will walk a few hundred metres to a lookout or bench, and then go back. Here people seemed a lot more dedicated to go the distance.The platform at the summit was chocka with people. Are you getting the impression that crowds aren’t my favorite?! We walked a little ways away to this rock, and had it to ourselves for at least a few minutes. The kids were amuzed by any overgrown chipmunk. Obviously he was very used to being fed by these crowds.
We stopped at a few more pull outs on the way back to camp, including finding a place to swim.
Lovely scenery. But moral of the story, at least for me……find beautiful places in this world that the rest of the world doesn’t know about, or go in the off/shoulder season. And ya know, in general that is what we do!!!!
