Day Five

Woke up this morning for a full day of Montana fun! Completely forgetting it was July 4th, and not really planning on seeing any spectacular fireworks out on the open road, we headed to Helena. Driving though Montana was very scenic, there were beaufitul mountains and green land everywhere, and some amazing homes that we kept pretending were celebrities hiding out in the west. We got to Helena and drove around the old part of town. It was so quaint and peaceful, and had the most beautiful old cathedral that stood in the city center. After meg almost drove down a one way street (clearly these Ohioans had no idea what they were doing) we headed towards Missoula, Montana. 

We had heard from a few different people that Missoula was a big, hippie college town. It's the home of The University of Montana, and it sure screams college and YELLS hippie (more like smells, if you catch my drift). But we LOVED it! It has a beautiful park in the middle of the town with a river that students were floating down in tubes and drinking beers, celebrating the good ol USA. Oh to be in college again....but we walked around and got some coffee and hung out for while before a little 5 hour stretch to Lake Moses, Washington.

We wanted somewhere close enough to Seattle that we could drive to in the morning because Cailin was flying in! Lake Moses was perfect, 3 hours outside of Seattle and CHEAP :) My dad booked us a little motel, and we arrived around 7 with full intent to eat and shower and sleep peacefully. The motel was decent and the beds were amazingly comfortable. We were STARVING, so naturally, as all good Amercians do on the 4th, we scoped out some Chinese restaurants close by. Unfortunately, many were closed. But we prayed and remained hopeful. Finally, after many agonizing phone calls, our Chinese food dreams came true...we headed to a Chinese Buffet a few miles down the road. God bless America. 

We ate our starved roadtrip hearts out, headed back to the motel, showered and passed out. Tomorrow we would finally reach Seattle and get to see Caitlin, AND go to Victoria, Canada...because this is an international roadtrip y'all and the funs just getting started :)