Beautiful Sunrises in Glacier National Park

 Up at 6am and I'm making coffee and Marlon has turned on the fireplace.  It's 40F outside and that's cold to us Floridaians. 

We are sipping coffee and talking about when we are leaving and what to do about lunch because we will be at Glacier and there is no place to eat.  We plan on spending the day there.  Marlon has made us a breakfast for a good start to our day.

We have decided to stop at Safeway in Whitefish and get some food for our adventure today.  Marlon went in and shopped while I waited in the car.  While I was waiting I saw these 2 birds. One is a black billed magpie and the other a sea gull.  Marlon has arrived and has our lunch and 2 coffees.

On our ride to Glacier Park the sun started coming up.  The sunrise was absolutely amaziningly beautiful.

Once we went under the underpass labeled Gayeway to Glacier National Par we stopped at the information center.   Well the information center was closed for the season so we got in line with the other cars to be admitted into the park.

We are finally up to the guards who are checking our special passes for admitance..  When they reviewed our pass they told us its not good until tomorrow.  UGG........  The guards told us to go and turn around and we can find out where we can go without a pass. We were given 3 towns we could go to that were outside the park.  We took the map left the park and headed for Walton Montanna.

On our drive to Walton Montana the fog is pretty thick.  The view of Glacier mountains is still very beautiful.

I spotted a train running along the mountain.  Wow it looks like there isn't enough room for that train. YIKES

The Flathead River runs along the road to Walton.

The drive to Walton to awful, speed limit was 70mph on windy roads.  As soon as we got to Walton which was basically a roadside park we stopped went to the bathroom and started our journey back to Whitefish.  We shopped in Whiterfish before we go back up the mountain to the condo.  On our way up Big Mountain rd we saw this brewery and decided to have a beer before going home.  Need something to relax after that nightmare of a drive.

We relaxed once arriving home.  Towards evening Marlon made us a sausage and cheese tray and poured us some champaign.  We enjoyed this out on the balcony  Its 80F but I would never have guessed that I was chilled.