Waterton!

The week before my sister and brother-in-law started school for the semester we took a trip to Waterton Lakes in Alberta Canada. My mother-in-law has a cottage there and she let us stay there for our little vacation. This place is beautiful! There is a waterfall almost right behind the cottage and the downtown are is about three blocks away. It feels so secluded but is still right in town!

To sum up our trip, we went hiking a lot and took the boat tour around the lakes and drove down to the Glacier part of the park and drove the Going to the Sun road. Niko learned to say hike (and the men brought him out almost every morning and I got to sleep more=that alone made the vacation for me). He also learned what a boat was and thought it was really fun. The Going to the Sun Road= terrified me a bit!

Now some highlight pictures!

I let Niko sit forward for the long ride so he could watch movies in grandma’s fancy magic car with movie player

Niko starting his first hike Red Rock Canyon

And playing in the creek in the canyon with grandpa and Trevor, he liked throwing the rocks…such a boy

 

 

Checking out the neighborhood deer!

So grateful for the help with Niko while hiking!!! I forgot the backpack carrier and was having enough trouble hiking with the baby I had to carry and I was a little slow chasing my toddler!

There was construction on the Going to the Sun Road so we were able to take pictures, but I didn’t trust Niko out of his car seat so we took one of him waiting in the car. This is also where I fought a wall of rocks and lost.

LOVE this face!

In Glacier at some fancy hotel on the lake

Everyone except Kaitie (our photographer) at the Prince of Wales Hotel

Just cute with the Lakes and mountains behind

And our boat tour:

We were able to see this guy swimming across the lake! The guide said it’s very rare for them to swim across the lake so he must have been chased by a predator. It was very cool and Niko really enjoyed it.

I’m almost done I promise! Niko was a really great trooper, he ran/walked (and had to be slowed down since he almost fell off an edge once, my mom was like a ninja and caught him!) a lot of the trails (a lot for a 20 month old anyway) and he even climbed up hills and crouched under trees.

I have so many awesome pictures because my sister was there and is far better about keeping the camera out than I am (but I blame having a toddler)! But I will end with Niko’s first s’more experience. We roasted marshmallows over the grill(because of all the fire danger this year) and then ate them at the fun picnic table in front of the cottage.

Okay I lied, I’ll end with a good group shot