HAPPY HOUR: How we met before we met & Glacier trip

AMY: Welcome to the Peaceful Entrepreneur podcast. Where together, we're learning how to have peace in the process of everyday business ownership by improving one step at a time, how we think and what we do. I'm your host, Amy Stout.

Welcome to Sober Happy Hour.

LUKE: Unfortunately, and the first happy hour on video.

AMY: Yes, hello to YouTube.

We are having sober happy hour just because it's in the middle of the afternoon.

LUKE: It's like 3 45. And we have things to do later.

I still, yeah, I'm gonna work out after this.

AMY: I am too.

LUKE: That's right you are too. I don't know if being tipsy while working out is a good idea.

AMY: Yeah probably not. But we do have our seltzer and lime. We do.

So at least there's something exciting going on around here.

LUKE: Cheers.

AMY: Cheers. Aww. It's been a minute.

LUKE: It has.

AMY: Since we've recorded a happy hour.

LUKE: It's been a whole season.

AMY: And a little more because we took some breaks. We took a little break during the summer.

LUKE: Yeah. You can now you can see us unfortunately, watch us interact and watch how different our skin tones are.

I make the joke that if you put our skin tones together we would make a really good yin and yang.

AMY: And it's really a toss up what our kids are going to turn out like.

LUKE: Yeah, we have no idea.

We're hoping for hope for at least like one of each. Even you've said like you rather them have my skin tone because we love the beach.

AMY: We would not want to put our kids through that the torture that I go through.

LUKE: Speaking of which interesting story for you that I just heard from a friend today actually a buddy was just at the beach and he apparently he in the group he was with the place they were staying at had a Shibumi like they were at an Airbnb and they used it and he got sunburnt through the Shibumi.

AMY: That's a problem.

LUKE: Which is a bummer because you know those are like $300. If you don't know what a Shibumi is they're all over the beaches here in North Carolina but it's like instead of a traditional umbrella on the beach it's a pole that's kind of in a half circle that goes down into the sand that stands up maybe about seven feet up to depending on how you adjust it and then it's got like a huge flap and you line it up into the wind with a sandbag that holds it down and it just the wind just holds the flap up.

So it creates like a tent, you know, so there's a big covering, but there's not like putting up an umbrella and worried about it flying away cause you're kind of like, this relies on the wind. It's a lot easier to set up. It is. Yeah.

AMY: It's like the parachute material.

So it's just like flying in the wind. You get to see my arm and that's what you really get to see now that we're on video is all of my hand motions that I make when I talk.

LUKE: That's true.

AMY: But yeah, so anyways, who knows? Hopefully our kids won't have to deal with too much sunburn. Yeah, I will be very vigilant about sunscreen for sure.

LUKE: Yes, definitely.

AMY: Do you have something to start us out with? I do actually.

LUKE: Okay. It's just a, you know, the thing about this podcast is it gives me an opportunity to, like I feel like a lot of podcasts are like, you're just talking about the most random stuff, right?

And at least the podcast I listened to. And it's like, this is a place where that side of my brain can just come out and flourish.

AMY: Yeah, I love that.

LUKE: So this is just a little brain tease for you just to think about throughout the episode. And you at home can think about this as well.

Why do we call it, why do we say, I don't remember when this came to me. I have this written down from a while ago. Why do we say, 'cause summer's coming to an end, It's almost fall here in the States.

Sadly in North Carolina, things are not really cooling off too much. It's still been high 80s, low 90s the last couple of days. But why do we say, why do we call it like a crisp fall day or like a crisp fall morning?

AMY: Crisp.

LUKE: Why do we say crisp? 'Cause crisp is like, you think about like a, like you bite into like a crisp apple with like a good crunch.

AMY: Yeah.

LUKE: You know, a crisp piece of paper, you know?

AMY: Yeah.

LUKE: Why? What's what's crisp about the air? It's like the first cool of the season is akin to like the crispness of the apple.

So that's all I'm, that's all I'm trying to say is I don't understand it. Um, I genuinely don't. So that’s just a little brain tease for you. A little brain tease.

AMY: Yeah.

LUKE: Cause air is not crispy.

AMY: To each their own, I guess.

LUKE: It's not crispy.

AMY: Speaking of brain teasers and icebreakers, my idea was that I haven't shared with you for this episode is last session for our community group at church, Luke was put in charge of coming up with all the icebreakers for the group.

LUKE: Yes.

AMY: And we had like, he did his research and had like 15 or 20 different icebreaker questions 'cause that's what we start each group with, we go around and like answer them. And so I thought that we could answer a couple icebreakers.

LUKE: Oh brother.

AMY: Do you still have it?

LUKE: Yeah. Here's a good one.

If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would it be?

AMY: So my first instinct is to go with my favorite food, but I don't feel like that's actually what I should.

LUKE: I think there's different ways you can play it, right?

It can be something that you need. Right?

They're just like, I could eat this at every meal and you know, be fine. Or it's like something you can't get a lot. Maybe, right?

AMY: Something that you don't have the opportunity to eat very often, but you really like probably sushi, yeah. Sushi for breakfast. Breakfast sushi and dinner sushi. Because it's so expensive.

So I have to like hold myself back from ordering a ton when I'm out but if I had an endless supply I could just eat to my heart's content.

LUKE: That's good. I'm gonna say honestly off the top of my head if you put me up against if you like you know put a gun to my head right now it made me answer right away. The first thing that comes to mind believe it or not is mango. I love mango. It is great and we just don't get it a lot.

Obviously I don't know what mango season is but you can't just go to the store any time of year and get a good one. like so I need to find out what when when that is but Trader Joe's mangoes are really good so I would say mango.

AMY: Okay what's the next icebreaker?

LUKE: What smell or image triggers nostalgia for you?

AMY: Crisp fall air. Actually kind of though. I don't know.

LUKE: Really?

AMY: I'm just thinking I've been nostalgic recently about the holiday season, especially Thanksgiving, because I have such good memories of it at our house that I grew up in, in the mountains. And we, my parents sold that house, so I will never have a holiday there anymore.

I've just been recently thinking about it because we're coming up on them and just the nostalgia of like food cooking in that kitchen and looking outside and seeing the leaves turn and like since it's the mountains, the air is extra crisp.

LUKE: Yes.

AMY: And just like gathering a family there. Like that's got me really nostalgic lately.

LUKE: That's good. Yeah. I feel like I feel like there are a lot of things for me. I'm a very nostalgic person just in general, but I think one that always takes me back to like childhood is like waking up to the smell of bacon cooking that makes me because like dad would make bacon like on Saturday morning and so I was probably sleeping in a little later than usual but that was not very late for me.

AMY: Yeah. Seven fifteen instead of seven o'clock.

LUKE: Yeah. And so waking up to that smell was like oh we're gonna have a great breakfast.

AMY: Oh that's so sweet. I love that. A lot of people said fresh cut grass.

LUKE: Yes. That's a good one.

AMY: Okay let's Let's do one more.

LUKE: One more. Okay. Here's a quick one.

If someone offered you a million dollars to give up your smartphone forever, would you do it?

AMY: Absolutely.

LUKE: You would?

AMY: Goodbye. Yeah.

LUKE: It said the prompt said smartphone, not phone.

So like you could still call people if you had to.

AMY: Right. But no social media, no Instagram. I would love to get rid of all of that.

LUKE: Yeah. That'd be great. But only because I think I'd probably become more productive.

AMY: I would be sad about like listening to podcasts and stuff, but I guess I could do that on the computer. No, you can still do that on the computer.

LUKE: Yeah. If you have an Apple watch, if you need it on the go, you can listen to it on there.

AMY: But then you can't have an Apple watch if you don't have a smartphone.

LUKE: Not if it has service.

AMY: That's true. Ways around the rule.

Okay. So today we are going to be sharing a story that we teased in the last happy hour episode. If you can remember back that far, cause I can't, it was a long time ago. Like we said, we told our engagement story, which is pretty entertaining one. So if you didn't listen to the last happy hour, you can check that one out, but we have another like pretty, pretty awesome story.

LUKE: Pretty funny story.

AMY: From our dating life. Um, kind of, and we wanted to share that cause we, I mean, it's just, It's one of those cool stories. You see TikToks about this kind of thing. And it's the story of how we met before we actually met.

LUKE: Yeah, do you want me to start?

AMY: Yes, and I would just say like when this happened and we realized what had happened, I was like, that would be so cool to tell at our wedding.

LUKE: And sure enough.

AMY: And we got to tell it at our wedding, which was special. So yeah, go for it.

LUKE: Yeah, so this, most of the story, I guess, happened on my side of things, I guess, anyway, right? for the most part, but so this was, it was the summer before our freshman year of college. So summer of 2015, I guess, right? I was at orientation at UNCG in Greensboro.

And I was, it was like the last day of orientation. My parents were there with me. And so they, we were like getting ready to head out that day, like the, all the stuff, all the happenings were over. And so we were out in front of like the student center on this nice lawn area. And my mom, like most moms was like, oh, we should take pictures like to remember this.

Oh, let me get a picture of you Luke. And so she's like taking pictures of me in front of the student center. - She'll appreciate that invitation.

AMY: Yes, definitely. Sorry, I love your mom.

LUKE: Like taking pictures like of me in front of the student center and me as a, I guess then still 17 year old, 18 year old. I was like, all right, that's, this is great. Like let's get it over with and go.

AMY: That's still how he is.

LUKE: Yeah. Still how I am. And then after that, my mom was like, Oh, we should take a picture of the three of us. And so she likes, you know, flag some random person.

No, it was like, excuse me. Like we take a picture of the three of us real quickly. And the person was like, yeah, sure. And so took the picture and handed the phone back to my mom was like, Oh, thank you so much. And so don't think anything of it. That's kind of the end, right?

And that's June. That is June of 2015. So that same year, it was like November. It was like a little while before. Well, we met.

AMY: Right. We met during that year.

LUKE: Yeah, in school.

AMY: Yeah, we met in school, which I think we've talked about that before, maybe.

LUKE: But we, and we can tell that story if people are interested, but we met August, September of our freshman year, um, and became kind of part of the same friend group after a while and develop the short of it is developed feelings for each other, I think pretty quickly.

And so my, I didn't date at all in high school, just had so much going on. So like, um, you know, it's like, I'm just not gonna date.

And so I, I think we have talked about this maybe. It's a good review.

Um, so it's like early November maybe. And my mom, my, my family knew about Amy cause like they hadn't met you at that point, I don't think, but they knew like who you were. I think I probably talked about you. And of course my mom and my sisters were like, Oh, he's, you know, Oh, he's interested in a girl. Whatever. And so they were excited about that.

So the whole time that freshman year, like after I met her in the dorm, I'm like, I know her from somewhere. Like she looks so familiar. And I'm like racking my brain, trying to think, was she a friend of a friend in Charlotte where I grew up? Like, and I saw her like when I was in high school, which I played basketball.

And so like we traveled around the state a lot. So I was like, was she like a player on another, on like a girl's team or like, was she a cheerleader or like someone I just saw? Like, and I just remembered her face and, and I did end up meeting your family because they came to town and we went, they took us, they took us with our friend group.

AMY: Yeah. They did meet me in person.

LUKE: Yes. Like in November. And so I don't think I told you that like, I, you reminded me of someone, uh, during that point. Cause I was just like trying to feel, I was like, man, where do I know her from? And so I told mom and my sister that and so they were trying to think too.

And so I'm in class one day and I get right before Christmas break. It was pretty soon before like Thanksgiving. Yeah I get a call and of course I had to let it go to voicemail cuz I was in class but I listened to the message when I get out of class and it's my mom and my sister the older of my two sisters and she's like they're like Luke, call us back as soon as you can.

We know where you know Amy from we figured it out that calls back and so I get back to my dorm room and I face time and they're like we figured it out like you will not believe this like you know they're like we remember how you said you recognized her but couldn't remember where you knew her from and turns out there the picture that my mom took of us or sorry took of me in front of the Student Center on UNCG's campus. If you look in the background of that picture, Amy is like walking towards us, like, so like facing the camera.

Pretty far back behind me, so blurry, but you can tell it's her pretty obviously with the red hair and like the the color she was wearing and the pale skin and the chakos. It's pretty obvious, like couldn't be anybody else. And so I was like that is hilarious, like oh my my gosh. So I looked, told, called Amy or told you when you got out of class and we were just laughing about it. Like, Oh, that's so funny.

I was like, that's where I know her from. So then we remembered mom was like, well, then you remember we, we took that picture, the three of us. So by the time that happened, Amy had been walking towards us in that big open area and mom had asked her to take a picture of the three of us. And I remembered doing it. Yeah. And Amy had taken the picture.

And mom said later, much months later. Like I think after we started dating officially that next year, that next calendar year. So like in like February, she was like when we had her take that picture, I just remember thinking, Lord, please help him to meet someone nice like this girl.

Cause she was like, Oh, that girl was so nice. She was like, please, please let him find somebody nice like this. And I went exactly after what she was hoping for, I guess.

AMY: So, so cool. Hilarious. So cool. I love that story.

LUKE: So fun. It's a good one. It was a great one.

Did you have anything you wanted to add onto that?

AMY: You did a great job. No, that was it.

LUKE: So anyway, my mom and my sister Cameryn told that story at the wedding, the wedding, which is which is we showed the picture.

Yeah, we showed the picture and everything.

AMY: We can put that on the YouTube. We can pop the picture up one.

LUKE: Yeah, maybe.

AMY: So maybe says the editor. We'll see what he see what he can do. I love it.

Well, that was June of 2015 and now we're in September of 2023, which is crazy.

And so we wanted to to tell a different story and just some different experiences because we just got to go to Glacier National Park in Montana. And it was such a fun adventure. And we just had the best time and I just thought it'd be fun to share a little bit about our experience.

LUKE: Definitely.

AMY: And Luke is wearing his hat. Very on brand.

I bought a t shirt and Luke bought two two hats. So that is pretty on brand for us.

LUKE: Very.

AMY: I love it. So we got the opportunity to do this because my parents have been traveling full time with a pull behind camper for the last year.

And so we have tagged along on some of their trips. So last year we went to San Diego with them. And then this year we did Montana and then we have an idea of maybe another trip we can do with them next year, but we're having a great time tagging along and it was our both of our first time out to Montana. I've done like the out west stuff but more like the southern.

LUKE: Yeah, further south.

AMY: Yeah, have you done this?

LUKE: I have not. I've been like west coast but not right. Any of those like Utah, Nevada, none of that.

All I really knew about glaciers we'd watch this like National Geographic documentary about all the different national parks. I just remember there was an episode on Glacier.

So I remembered that episode, but, um, I don't even remember how the idea came out for us to join them, but it did. And we planned on it. And so my parents basically planned their trip to go through Glacier. And then we booked our flights to meet them out there once they arrived.

And so we had five full days in the park and we saw a really good sampling of the entire thing. I feel like the whole park other than the Canadian side, obviously, right?

But we got a really good sense of a lot of the different areas and we saw a ton of wildlife. We did some amazing hikes. So I think we can just share a little bit about that because people who may be going to Glacier could kind of glean a little bit from our experience.

So yeah, we're by no means professionals, but we do know how to have a good time. We stayed in a little cabin on the campground that my parents were parked at, which is cool. They just bunched little cabins all over there. Yeah, there's a lot of good, a lot of good places to stay as you get kind of the closest, of the closest towns to the west entrance, which is probably the main entrance, I think in the States is Columbia Falls.

And it was like 20, it was like, it's like 20 minutes from the entrance. So that's where we stayed. That was great. And there's, you know, all sorts of different places, campgrounds and stuff you can stay at between there and the entrance to the park. But yeah, there's no shortage of lodging or campground, but you You probably have to book it pretty far in advance.

To get that close, but also just in general probably. Yeah, another thing is plan your trip at least six months out because if you want to get into the park between the hours of 6 AM and 3 PM, you have to have a pass to get on the road to get into the park. It's crazy. It's literally called like a driving pass. So it's not even like-- Obviously there's a, there's a fee to get into the park, but we didn't have to pay that because they're seeing that the senior, because they have that senior card or whatever, but you have to have a pass to drive on the roads in there. And so you like go in and like select what area you're going to be in, in the park. And then you buy that, that pass to get in.

And it's not ridiculously expensive. It's pretty cheap to control how many cars are in the park at a time because the parking is obviously limited.

And we even had to like drive around and wait for a while, even a couple days.

Some of the more, some of the more popular spots, like there was a little bit of a wait. So I understand why they do the pass thing, but I'm glad they do it. Cause it makes the, it makes the roads not as crazy.

AMY: It doesn't feel overcrowded. It's definitely full.

LUKE: But once you like, after you park and you get on the trail, it's like some places you do feel like you're the only person out there, depending on where you are.

AMY: I guess we can talk about the different areas that we went to. Um, we, the main road is called going to the sun is the name of the road.

And it basically cuts the park in half. Um, and so you can drive from the west entrance to the east entrance on this road, like all the way through the park.

And there's a ton of different like pull offs and, um, outlooks and trails and lodges and lakes, like all along the road. It's like a 50 mile road, but it takes something like that. It takes like an hour and a half to drive. It takes like two hours. Yeah, because of the traffic and elevation and how fat I mean the speed limits pretty slow, right? And some of those mountains you're going, I mean, you're driving on like the edge of mountains and you kind of, it's so gorgeous.

Like you can like just driving the road in itself is an event is beautiful. Yeah, yeah, definitely. You get to see a lot, which is cool. I would say we did like we did kind of a highlight trails. The first one we did was called Trail of the cedars and avalanche lake which is probably one of the most popular ones you hear about. Yeah. But it's like walking through the middle of the woods. Yeah. It kind of starts as like a like Trail of the cedars. A lot of that is there's parts of it that are like more accessible for like older people or like people in wheelchairs even because part of it is like paved and there's some boardwalk.

So that's pretty easy to get around. And then that splits off into that second trail, which goes up, which is a little more strenuous. Yeah. And it lets out at this gorgeous lake that I guess has been formed by a glacier. You can see like on the mountains, you can see the trail that the glacier, the glacier's hook.

LUKE: Yeah. Stunning.

AMY: Yeah. Absolutely stunning.

I think one of the coolest things too is the difference in obviously the changes in elevation and wildlife, depending on where you are in the park, but also just the temperature drop when you drop, I mean, once you get into the park, the temperature drops like 10 degrees. It's crazy. And then obviously once you get up higher, it gets chillier and it's breezy when you're up higher because there aren't as much tree cover, but it's interesting to see, like, looking at all the mountains, like, where the tree line stops and all of that, just seeing the difference in the terrain.

But one thing that I thought was pretty cool was up near Logan's Pass, which is kind of like the middle of that row of going to the sunroad, I think, I want to say. It's kind of like, I mean, you're driving through a pass kind of, so you're kind of going up and over a mountain kind of. there's a bunch of good hikes that start from that area. And so we did one that like was pretty easy. It was just like strenuous.

The first part, it's just like straight up.

AMY: Yeah. Stairs.

LUKE: It was a bunch of stairs, which is funny, but it takes you over this little mountain and you get to see down into this Valley and see hidden Lake, which is very fitting a very fitting name because it is tucked away. You can't see it until you get can't see it until you get to the very end of the trail which is really beautiful and then from the other side of that is the High Line Trail starting at kind of the same area which is one of the most famous trails yeah one of them it's it's pretty strenuous I think all in all it's like 11 miles 9 9 10 11 somewhere in there we did like three and a half of it yeah we did just a little bit of that cuz we didn't have a lot of time but that one is beautiful cuz it goes again, kind of, you kind of are for parts of it, walking along the side of a mountain.

I mean, there's spots where it's like, there's spots where you're walking on rock and it's pretty straight down, down to the road. And they've got a little guideline for you to hold onto to make you feel better. But, um, that was, that one was really fun. And that's where we saw a grizzly bear.

AMY: Yep. I'm so glad we saw one.

LUKE: Yes. From a safe distance. It It was about 75 to 100 yards away from us by the time we got out there because people were like telling us on the trail like, Hey, there's a grizzly out there. So just be aware. Keep your eyes open. So that was really cool. Um, he was huge. He was massive. I mean, he was probably nine feet tall when he stood up. Yeah. Apparently he was on the trail for a little bit like chasing the squirrels.

And then by the time we got there, he had gone down past the trail and it was kind of at a like a slant. Like there was like it was a it was a meadow kind of on a pretty steep incline. Where there were a bunch of switchbacks kind of going up over a ridge and he had like come over the ridge.

He'd come over the ridge and he was going down chasing the ground squirrels down into the meadow. And then there was huckleberries in the meadow. And so by the time we got there, he was literally or she, I don't know, but they were just sitting sitting on his haunches.

AMY: Yeah, we saw it just like walk up and sit down and just move his head around and eat the berries. It was so funny.

LUKE: And then on that same trail on our way back, turned around and we saw some big horn sheep, which are beautiful.

They got up on some rocks and posed for us.

AMY: Yes. Amazing. Super cool. Yep.

LUKE: We did. We also saw some mountain goats, some billy goats up on the hidden lake. Yep. And then we did see some deer on Highline. And we also saw deer on a lot of other trails, but that Logan pass was like the most wildlife.

AMY: Yeah. Definitely. We saw some Marmot's up there.

LUKE: We saw a big old whistle pig.

AMY: There was a bird too. I'm not going to remember.

LUKE: I remember it. A ptarmigan.

AMY: We didn't see any, but those are some birds that are up there and. And then the other. Wildlife like the highlight wildlife that we saw is that same day after we did the high line and saw like the day before we had seen the mountain goats and then on the high line, we saw the bear and the deer and the sheep.

And then that afternoon we went to Lake McDonald, which is one of the two big lakes on along the going to the sun road. There's lakes everywhere, but those are the like, it's one of the two big ones.

It's like eight miles long or something.

And so we took a little dinghy motorboat out and we started on the very end of it. I don't even know how far we went in, but there's the whole far side of the lake. So on one side of the lake is all of it's like a lodge in the road and all of that. But the opposite side is just forest, private property and forest. And so it's very undisturbed. And we knew my mom had known that there were some eagles over there.

And so like I'd heard her mention them and we were maybe a mile out into the middle of the lake and I was just looking over and I saw a bald eagle sitting in a tree and we had our binoculars. So all of us took turns and we got to see it. It just sat there and was just looking out.

And then we saw two juvenile bald eagles shortly thereafter that were hanging out in the same area. And they just obviously don't much smaller and don't have the white head yet at that age They haven't developed that so it's they're all just kind of like brownish black.

LUKE: We'll definitely recommend going to glacier there's a ton of stories we could tell I'm sure yeah Yeah, we gotta at least talk about we gotta talk about pull bridge and many glacier too Because that was just like you could you could spend your whole trip on going to the Sun Road Yeah, if you wanted.

AMY: Yeah one of the yeah one of the areas on the east side of the park that you You can drive through going to the Sun and get there quicker but we drove around the park because we didn't have a pass for going to the Sun that day and That side of the park near mini glacier is beautiful.

There's a Swiss inspired lodge there that you can stay at that's right on a lake So gorgeous beautiful. We took a boat across one lake hiked a quarter of a mile took another boat through that lake Yeah, and that got us kind of near Close to like the middle of the park kind of Grinnell Glacier.

LUKE: Yeah near Grinnell Glacier, which is like the big glacier That's still there and so In that area and so we Amy and I were hiking a pretty strenuous hike and her parents were going on a guided hike. So they had gotten off we had all gotten off the boat Amy and I had taken off because we were trying to use the daylight as much as we could and so we were like climbing up doing a bunch of switchbacks on the side of the mountain So we could see down at the lake still and like see the people on the other side of the lake And we're watching them and I turn around and I look and sure enough.

There's a humongous moose walking through the water and brief science lesson Moose do not have a way to cool themselves off. They can't paint like a dog. Yeah, they can't Be yeah, they can't sweat. They can't they can't breathe. They can't like Breathe a bunch to cool themselves off or anything, you know Yeah so they What they have to do is they just get in the water Mm-hmm and the water there's pretty cold obviously and so they just get in the water and walk around and you know lay down or whatever. And so he was like walking in the water. And so we're like, Oh my gosh, trying to get pictures because he was pretty far away from us from where we works. We were up so high.

And then we look over and there's a second moose that has come out of the woods into the water, maybe 75 yards from 50, 75 yards from the other moose. And the second was pretty close to where the people are. And they tell you to not get more than like to not get within like maybe 20 yards of a moose because they're pretty stupid. Yeah, but signs lesson part two, they're stupid. And their brains. Yeah. Their brains are about the size of a walnut and they can't see. They have really bad vision. They cannot see. So they see something that they think is threatening.

They just charge. They don't care. I don't know what it is. So they charge it.

Wouldn't that be funny if that's how we were humans you feel threatened to need to charge whatever it is she runs straight at it so the female apparently had a calf which is a baby yeah the first one a young moose a calf and it was like hidden away in the woods yeah and she felt threatened that this male moose was there which was the second one and so she starts running through the water charging charges the other man charging the other moose and the other moose starts running away because he's scared.

And so he starts running up onto the shore near where all the people are. And you look down and it just looks like ants, like scattering, scattering, running away, you know? And so thankfully he didn't run towards them. He ran away from them, but apparently he did like hang out on the trail for awhile. So they had to wait to start that guided hike, but they were, they were beautiful. And that hike was awesome because the closer you get to the glacier, you see more of the flower in the water, which comes off of the glacier and kind of gives it kind of sits on the top and it gives the water like a real blue look like it's like it's it's like milky blue.

AMY: Yeah, like if you ever see pictures of glacier and the water is like I see. Yeah, it doesn't look really bright like that is like sediment coming off of the glacier into the water. It's wild. It's crazy and it gets brighter. closer to the glacier you get. So we were in an area that had three levels of lakes. And so the bottom one that we took the boat across just looked normal.

It looks like normal water. The next one up that we hiked up and looked down at was like this brilliant, really pretty, like medium turquoise. But the, there's another one that we didn't get to, but it is even brighter and lighter.

LUKE: It's crazy. So cool.

AMY: And then the last little place that we got to talk about is Polebridge, which is on the west side, further north, like toward Canada. And we drove up there for the day and there is a park entrance up there, but before the park entrance, there's a little town called Polebridge and it's got a mercantile store. And so we went because this store is famous for its bakery and they have huckleberry bear claws in a ton of other, yeah, totally stuff. Yeah. Pastries and stuff like that. And so we went up and, and had that and Luke had his water bottle had broken on the trip. And so we were on a mission to find a new water bottle.

And so he's got a new Nalgene pole bridge mercantile water bottle.

LUKE: Gotta go off the grid to get it.

AMY: Yep.

LUKE: That and that town, it's like that mercantile store. It’s like a little restaurant and some cabins and some farm like some old farm buildings that have been renovated but other than that there's nothing out there that's it you gotta drive pretty far to get but it was crowded I mean people were yeah a lot of people over there yeah draws a crowd so it was such a cute little place I loved and whitefish is a cute little town that's like 10 minutes from Columbia Falls and it was just an adorable little place to explore so there's like close to a big like ski resort so that's like their I mean, that's the main thing.

AMY: So there's just so many little fun places to explore. We were saying we could have spent two weeks and not gotten bored. So we definitely want to go back. We had an incredible time and Luke, he could spend every day hiking like that.

LUKE: I could live out there.

AMY: He was at his happiest.

LUKE: I was at my happy place. Definitely would recommend going if you're thinking about it.

AMY: Yep, and we'll see what adventure we have next.

That's our happy hour episode for you today. Thank you for joining us. And if you're watching, thank you for joining on YouTube. And we'll see you for the next happy hour.

LUKE: Bye.

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