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Salut!

So just as a head's up this one's going to be relatively short because I believe I'm getting sick and I only got like 4 hours of sleep the past two nights so I'm a little tired.

So things that I've done. Oh so Claire, Kylor and I went down to the beach twice now. (The water is freezing. But it does feel great on really warm days).

Ummmmmmmm....... I've gone to a couple campfires. Those were a lot of fun.

Claire, Luke and I went hiking. It was really fun. And gorgeous. And incredibly difficult because like the smart people we are we decided to do highline backwards. Which means we were ascending the entire time unlike all of the people who passed us going the opposite direction. But it was gorgeous.

Twinsies

Luke's trying to get Giardia.

We're all super attractive.

The view.

So I've lost steam. I think I'm going to go take a nap and drink some orange juice. My next post will better.

TTFN (ta ta for now)
Shelby

Leap of Faith (In A Sense)

Hi y'all.

So we didn't end up going to Avalanche Lake yesterday. We gathered everyone up to late. So we ended up going on a short hike nearby to St. Mary's Falls and Virginia Falls.

St. Mary's

Virginia

It was Claire, Luke, Kylor and I that all went.

Luke and I

Kylor and Claire

We ended up seeing my 4th bear. I was in front (watching my feet because I'm a clutz and I don't want to trip) and all of a sudden Kylor grabs my backpack and says "Stop! There's a bear." And at first we thought he was just kidding but when we all looked about 40 feet from us was this:

It was super overcast when we started so we all were dressed for potentially getting wet. What I didn't plan for was getting soaked. Especially since it wasn't rain that soaked us. (These are all at St. Mary's)

Claire jumping.

Me taking the plunge

This is like Kylor's 5th jump

We finally got Luke to hop in.

Kylor jumped from the other side.

Some random guy decided to one up Kylor and jump from a higher place. 

We lucked out though because after we got back, we decided we wanted pie and then on our way back from that it started downpouring. Unfortunately Kylor had to go to work, so Claire, Luke and I watched silence of the Lambs and then sat on the porch and watched the storm.

Overall it was a pretty fantastic day off. Sadly my next day off is Sunday. But it's all good.

TTFN (ta ta for now)

Shelby

Sleep Deprivation and Real Civilization

Hola!

So I'm finally getting a real day off today! I am super excited. I was supposed to have yesterday off but we had the largest amount of check-outs so far this season so our boss had everyone working today. 7th day in a row of work.... Oh yeah.

Anyway a few of us are going to Avalanche lake to go hiking today. I hear that it's super beautiful. I will definitely post pictures from it. Speaking of pictures and hikes, last week at some point (I no longer know what day it is) we went over to Many Glacier and it was gorgeous!!!

This is their lake.

Such a beautiful view.

A waterfall we hiked off trail to get to.

Claire and Lucas being more adventurous than me.

My little friend Evelyn who landed on my hand and didn't leave for like 15 minutes.

We went on a boat tour of the lake right next to Rising Sun. It was really fun listening to someone start talking about the precambrian era and all of this geology and describing lichen. I giggled a lot during this guys talk.

The view from the boat.

The other side of the lake.

Oh my gosh. Saw my third bear. And it was a little nerve-wracking. Mostly because Claire and I were walking up from the boat dock and we were like "Why are all of these cars stopped?" It was because there was a bear walking across this field in between the lake and the campground. Walking directly where we needed to go ourselves. Luckily these really nice people staying at Rising Sun, who were stopped to take pictures, asked us if we needed a ride and then drove us back home.

Here it is. Not a grizzly so not as scary, but still.

Fourth of July was interesting. A bunch of guys got some fireworks and we went to one of their property's near by and let them off. There were a lot drunk people and fire and explosives, it was a little terrifying. But from a safe distance it was a lot of fun. 

Oh and then we went to Kalispell the other day. Which is what we all consider real civilization here. We went to Walmart and I got shorts for work to combat the heat. And then we went and got pizza. Pizza is like the most craved food here because there aren't very many pizza places. It was a lot of fun and I finally got to go on the to the sun highway. The view from that is absolutely gorgeous. On our way back the sun was setting and it was just jaw-droppingly awe-inspiring.

These pictures just don't do it justice.

Anyway we're going soon so I think I'll wrap this up here.

TTFN (ta ta for now)

Shelby

PS Please feel free to leave comments or ask questions if you get the urge. It'd be nice sometimes to have some sort of response to what I'm writing.