Today is the day, we have been waiting for - to get the ball joints replaced in the motor home. Wilbur and Fred are at the garage, seeing what they can do to be of assistance. I am sitting on the porch on a beautiful day. The birds are singing their little hearts out. Elsie got fresh lettuce, onions and radishes out of her garden. It is dry here and Elsie waters her flower planters every day. We hope they will soon get rain for the hay and other crops and green up the lawns. We will head west, when the motor home is repaired and hope to be in Alaska by the longest day (Sunday). It is still light until 12 midnight and then gets light soon after 3 am. We have had such a good time, here at Fred and Elsie's, its almost a downer to move on soon. The guys have been to several auctions and the ladies took in a quilt show. But mostly we just sit, talk and enjoy the nature and drink good coffee.
Sunday evening at the Gingerich's. We enjoyed our popcorn and the outdoors. We made tinfoil dinners on Saturday night and cooked them on the grill. Yum! Yum!

We have been at Fred and Elsie's 24 hours now. We had some bad news about our RV and we are now awaiting parts from Michigan. We will see how one day UPS does to northern Alberta. We will wait and enjoy the area, as we wait for the parts and then for the repair work. Fred and Elsie have been such wonderful hosts and we are loving it here in their little heaven on earth.

Today we went for quad rides through their woods - fun, fun fun.
They have a peaceful, quiet cabin, just down the hill from where we are parked.

A quick note tonight to let you know that we arrived at Fred and Elsie's this afternoon. They live just outside of Athabasca, Alberta.

We are parked in their RV spot and it is so peaceful. The birds are singing and yesterday they had a bear walk through their yard and a few days ago they saw a moose around the house. I hope we get to see a little of the wildlife also but if not the beauty of nature is here. they live at the edge of the Northern bush.

Hope for pictures tomorrow.

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We arrived at the Weins on Sunday afternoon. Gary and Ann are such good hosts and we are having a wonderful time in Alberta. We are enjoying their 3-year old home, along with their wonderful view of the rocky mountains.
On Sunday night Garys invited our old friends, Jim and Joy Penner for the evening. Jims lived in Iowa while teaching at IMS. Their daughter Naomi and husband Ryan came along for the evening also. It was really good to see them again. Tonight we will be going eating with Jims.Glacier National Park on Sunday, June7, 2009. Yes, I was routed out of bed at 6:30 AM to go for a ride in the park. It was worth it - the scenery was beautiful and we saw a lot of animals. We saw deer, moose and antelope and babe.

We woke up to snow this morning and it is cold. We went to Waterton Glacier Park today in Alberta.
We have seen a few animals and some of them let us get close enough to take some good pictures.
We are camping at a Glacier National Park campground. We are glad for the furnace.
Until next internet hookup. Bye Bye

The night before the breakfast, we had a grandkids sleepover and all the girls had their nails done by each other. They are stars and here they made one and below is another one.
The vintage playhouse and some kids having fun.

We have had a nice afternoon in Glacier National Park. The Going to The Sun Highway was not open all the way because of an avalanche this winter. It was disappointing since this was the reason we wanted to go to Glacier. We went on a scenic road by the name of Many Glaciers. We also went to Babb, Montana, which has another entrance to the Park. We saw a moose, and about 20 mountain sheep.

We will head toward Waterton, Alberta, to the International Peace Park tomorrow. We plan to stay overnight, then head to Calgary, which is only 26 miles from Waterton Park. We will be with friends Gary and Ann on Sunday night.

We have been on the road a few days. This is a typical scene as we traveled around Cheyenne. We are enjoying Teton National Park and Yellwstone National Park. We have camped here for two days. We went to Yellowstone today. We saw fabulous scenery, interesting wildlife and the crowds were not huge. This mountain range was seen on the way to Tetons yesterday. We have seen hundreds of Elk, and here are a few we saw yesterday in the park.

These are alpine flowers from the tundra at 8000 + feet height. The yellow ones are the size of my little finger nail.