Flathead Lake, July 5, 2007

On our last day up in the Glacier/Flathead Lake area of Montana, we rented a pontoon boat for 1/2 the day and spent the morning and early afternoon on Flathead Lake. Uncle Shawn LOVES boats and he was the skipper. Vanessa was the co-skipper! We cruised around and had lunch on the lake, we took a dip in the lake and just had a great time! We highly recommend renting a boat and spending some time at Flathead Lake. It truly is God's country out here.

The kids were required to wear life jackets the entire time on the boat and they really looked cute!

Josie-Girl

Jack-Jack
Skipper & Mike

Lolo & Lola

Uncle Shawn & Aunt Bern

Vanessa, Josie & Dad

Vanessa & Mom Vanessa LOVED the boat!
Vanessa & Mom taking a dip in the Lake

(Ok, no jokes about beached whales, please)

Vanessa & Aunt Bern

Uncle Shawn & Aunt Bern

(Self Portrait)

Uncle Shawn taking a break
Sleeping Josie
Sleeping JackOdd explosion that occurred just as we were leaving. It appears that it was a wildfire caused by a lightning strike in the Bob Marshall Wilderness area just East of Flathead Lake.

After our adventure on Flathead Lake, we headed home in 105 degree weather! Our last day, we spent in Missoula trying to find relief from the heat. Mike and I and the kids went to a GREAT waterpark in Missoula. (http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/parksrec/Rec%20Docs/Rec%20Guides/recguide.pdf see cover photo of the waterpark). Unfortunately, because it was over 100 degrees and there was essentially water everywhere, I didn't get any photos of us at the waterpark. I didn't want to risk ruining the camera. It was a great time, though, and we are all sufficiently sun kissed!

Tomorrow brings an end to our summer vacation in Montana...we had a great time, and the kids can't wait to come back!