Since we last posted, the Pandas met Mom and Dad in Whitefish, Montana, just outside of the beautiful Glacier National Park. We took this opportunity to take a few days off from bicycling and camping, instead we hiked around the park and stayed in different lodges every night. While it snowed the entire day of our last post, and rained all of the next day, the past three days have been bright and sunny! And the park was even more beautiful for having had snow. Glacier National Park consists of the most beautiful crags and mountain spires I've seen in the American northwest. After it cleared up, all we could see were lakes surrounded by snowy peaks, everywhere we looked. It was stunning.

Hiking around Glacier park enabled us all to get a closer look at some wildlife. Driving up to Many Glacier Lodge, we saw 10 or so female Bighorn sheep and their lambs. Apparently the lodge had been built on a migration route for these wild sheep, and so every June saw the lodge's grass and flowers thoroughly munched on by hungry sheep. Even more remarkable, these sheep seem completely acclimatized to humans and cars. Driving back out of the lodge, we ran into another pack of ewes and lambs, who came up to the car without the slightest trace of fear and stuck their heads in our windows, no doubt sniffing out our delicious sandwiches that we were not about to give away.

Yesterday the family piled back into the car to drive up to the Prince of Wales hotel in Alberta, Canada. Walking through the nearby town of Waterton, we saw that the deer there function much like squirrels back home: they are everywhere! They hung out on everyone's front lawns, and even tried to get into our restaurant last night. Unlike squirrels, however, these deer were known to attack and injure dogs (I always thought it would be the other way around?)

Even more exciting was this morning, as Liz, Cate, and Sarah got back on their bikes and left their parents behind, we saw two grizzlies not too far from the hotel! These grizzlies were only about two years old, and it looked like they had left their mother but were still hanging out together. They were across a small river from the road, and we were able to see them pretty close up. Since we couldn't see their teeth or claws from where we were, we wanted to take them biking with us and cuddle with them, maybe rename them "Grizzly Panda" and "Other Grizzly Panda."

We had a short ride this morning (only about 35 miles) from Waterton to Cardston, where we are staying tonight. Unfortunately, no library we've been to recently has let us upload pictures, but hopefully pictures will be soon in coming. Thanks for reading!

-Chaos, Disco, and Fatorexic Pandas