Today we woke up early and caught the 9:00 bus to road to the sun. After an hour ride through some beautiful vistas we hopped off at Logan's Pass. I want to thank Melissa for suggesting the hike there. It is only 1.5 miles but it is straight up. It is quite a hike. At one point I asked Chris "whose idea was this?" I told him Melissa. He said to tell her thanks but we were on the uphill climb and I am pretty sure his thank you was not sincere. However at the top...it was glorious. I met a Christian lady on the walk and she asked how anyone could see all of this and not think there was a God/
We were not able to go to church again today. I had found an Episcopal Church in town on the internet but when we got here could not find any listing for it. I think I might have found St. Mary's in Colorado. So we found a quite spot on the walk to stop and listen to an audio lectio divina podcast that I had recorded earlier. It was a beautiful place to worship.
We had two opportunities for ministry today. The first was when we came along a couple that was resting on the way up the path. They both looked weak. I had packed several packs of peanut butter crackers and two pieces of fruit. We asked them if they needed something to eat and they gladly accepted our crackers.
Now on the way back to the visitor center we sat across from 4 girl from Poland. They were being silly and we laughed with them. They had two very large rolling suitcases and 4 large and overfilled backpacks. We saw them get off and sit by the bus stop and we each went our way. We got back to the Rollin Ace, walked the dogs, and headed out. The four girls were dragging their luggage in the grass hiking to the highway. We stopped and asked if they wanted a ride and they came running. With very poor English they said gas station. So we went to the nearest one. Now what. They showed us the road were they were headed and prepared to get out. The road was straight up hill. So of course we said we would take them up the hill. At one point I could tell they did not know where the place was that they were going. They were all talking at the same time, some English, but we understood enough to know they wanted to go to the employee housing for the park and they were meeting a friend to stay with but he was at work. So Chris stopped a fellow walking up the hill and asked him directions. He pointed to the gravel road. The girls again said that we had done enough and they did not want us to have to go on that road. Chris had promised no more gravel roads. But what could we do. Those suitcases had to way 100 pounds each. So we headed up hill on the one lane gravel road, found the housing and dropped them at the door. They could not believe how nice Americans are and thanked us profusely. We saved them quite and walk and climb. It was fun but NO MORE GRAVEL ROADS.
We did have a chipmunk run across my shoe, we saw mountain goats, a pine martin(we thought it was a wolverine), and a marmaduke(I think that is how you say it...he yelled at us the whole way).
This is so quiet and so beautiful. I could stay here for quite a long time but the snow is headed here tomorrow night so we have to leave in the morning. We are headed south and our next objective is Vernal, Utah to see the dinosaurs. It should take us a few days.
Peace to all my friends, Barbara
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