Melody likes to go to the park, the "blue" park, especially, the one with the purple slide. She likes it best when there are just the right number of other kids there, so she's not all alone and not having to shove her way through the crowd. So we've been going there. But yesterday, we went to the other park, Glacier National Park, to see where her Dad is working.
Mike is working on the project to restore the Going-to-the-Sun Road, which was originally built in the 1930's and is now showing signs of wanting to slide off the mountainside. His part is to replace the stone guardrails just the way they were when they were new. Underneath, there's lots of concrete and other new-tech stuff, but on top, the appearance of old. Apparently they number the rocks when they take them off, but it's still not completely straightforward to put them back.
We went to see her Dad for lunch, which was great fun, and then up to Logan Pass, on the Continental Divide, where snow and glacier lilies grace the awesome panorama of wild, rocky peaks. Melody's favorite was the display basket full of little plush birds that make authentic bird calls when squeezed. On the way down, we stopped for a photo op by the river.
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