Day 7: Glacier National Park, Montana→Helena, Montana

We loaded up the car, said goodbye to the cabin, and decided to check out the Two Medicine area of the park in the southeast before heading to Helena, Montana for the evening. The Two Medicine area is a quiet area of the park and I wanted to take a photo at Paradise Point with my University of Iowa flag. Yes, I am THAT girl. While looking on the map, we saw that right next to Paradise Point was Pray Lake. How cool! We made our way to Pray Lake and took some silly photos with “our” lake. We stopped at the general store in the Two Medicine area and I bought a book on bear attacks. The lady working the store not only grew up in Des Moines but she also went to Lincoln High School (where Megan taught) and she also went to DMACC (where I work). Small world. She and her husband come live and work up in the park every summer. Finally, we said goodbye to the most beautiful national park we’ve ever been to and hit to road to Helena. Once in Helena we checked into the hotel and took our dirty laundry to the Little Dipper Laundromat. Like total dingos we didn’t realize that the speed queen dryer would be that speedy in drying our clothes so when we treated it like a normal dryer by inserting enough coins for half an hour - we burnt ourselves and ruined one of my shirts. You could probably cremate a body in there – that’s how hot it gets. Damn you speed queen. We ate at an amazing diner at a local place called Shellie’s Country Café. Not only was the wait staff amazing but the food was very good. I got the brunch burger and added peanut butter & mayo. Megan got the mushroom swiss burger and tots. We shared a scoop of huckleberry ice cream for dessert and called it a night.