The Honeymooners

Our friends Ming and Bob own a condo in a schmancy fancy Lodge at Whitefish Lake and they are of the sort of people who generously live so that other may live generously. Not only did Ming give us a wedding cake from my favorite bakery in Palo Alto, but they provided this incredible place for us to stay in Whitefish, Montana AND she rented a car for us shoestring living newlyweds. As a result, we had a GLORIOUSLY relaxing honeymoon in a setting that I don't think I ever imagined myself staying in.

Like I said before, I CANNOT recommend honeymoons enough. I was having serious anxiety attacks before the wedding and often my body doesn't know when to QUIT when it comes to anxiety. It took a couple of days after the wedding to turn the MOTOR off. I can't think of a kinder thing to do after a wedding than to take some time for yourselves to just DECOMPRESS and get back to yourself. As it turns out, a peaceful place like a lakeside lodge was just what the doctor ordered.

While in Montana, we did LOTS of exciting things:


We also SAW SO MUCH:



Actually, eventually we DID do exciting things like explore the Town of Whitefish, which has one of the FINEST town museums I've ever been to. Whitefish also may have won my heart, when I we went back to the car and saw this in the street beside it:



There was another one with the words TUBE STEAK written in even prettier penmanship. Apparently, somebody's advertisement had been scattered to the streets.

Upon further investigation, it turns out the Montana is well, BEAUTIFUL. We also explored the exciting majesty of Glacier National Park. I can tell you that New York has MANY things, but it doesn't have this:



I think somewhere a developer is seeing this and having PALPITATIONS. To which, I say: HANDS OFF!

We also got to taste yummy drinks like the Lodge's own drink it calls "The Woo Woo." You feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor when you order it, but then you taste it and you can't help declaring WOOOO! because the sugar is making your teeth turn to liquid.



It was either ordering that or a Huckleberry Daiquiri, and well, after you've had a Woo Woo you kind of get AFRAID of trying any other sweet "signature" drinks.

Things we didn't take pictures of, but wish I had: the plate of sticky bbq ribs that I ordered TWICE while I was there, the nice guy who I talked to at the Whitefish Museum, who had married his wife at the church in town 50 years ago, and the pair of mountain goats we saw in Glacier National Park. It was a mama and a baby and it was mouth watering adorable to see them cross a road, but you can't capture EVERYTHING you experience and feel all the time. Except maybe when you're happy and relaxed:

Yep, at least there's that.