Camping, Cold, & Cats

So where to start? It was quite an interesting 5 days. First, the above photo is Missoula lake. The haziness around is from the wildfires in Glacier. This is an awesome lake, I love the blue color :)

The weather was beautiful during the day, but we had freezing temps at night. Not so much fun. I slept in flannel pjs and extra warm socks each night. It was SO hard to get up in the morning. We actually had frost on the windshields!
You had to shower around 4 in the afternoon, because once the sun started setting behind the trees, the temps started dropping quickly. In August, go figure.
















This is another view from the camping area. Again, haziness sure didn't help, but the views were beautiful anyway. I have quite a few pics and will share throughout the week I think, BUT... I had to tell you the most intersting and funny story first. And NONE of you will be surprised.

We're drivin along, Liz and I. The guys were in seperate cars ahead of us. We had 3/4 tank of gas and figured that was enough. The guys told us to stop and top it off. We weren't going to, but decided last minute to go ahead and do it, so we wouldn't have to hear about it later.
Sooo, we're sitting at this Sinclair gas station, she's pumping gas and I'm buying a drink when all of a sudden we hear...

A kitten. A crying, screaming kitten. We both stop to look around and sure enough, in the dumpster is a kitten. A dirty, very young, very hungry kitten. And we're sitting at a very big, very busy gas station on the frontage road of the freeway.
Well, you know me. I couldn't leave it!
I sat on the ground in this gas station and tried to coax this kitten out of the dumpster. It was scared, but it was hungry, so she kept getting closer to see if I had food.
I did wind up catching her, and taking her into the car with me. We both laughed just knowing what the hubs was going to say when he saw this :)
She was so so thin, it was scary. She was also very dehydrated and covered with grease. She did very well on the 2 hours of the drive, and drank alot of water. When we got to the campsite, we fed her what we could from our coolers.

I was pretty impressed with this cat. She's about 8 weeks old maybe. She wasn't scared of much, not even the 5 dogs with us. She stayed in the camp with me the whole time. The boys caught trout for her to eat and she just loved it! It took her awhile to warm up and learn to be a kitten. By the time we left she was running around and actually playing. She's clean now, and looking so much better. At this moment, she is sleeping on the pillow behind my head, and her and Trout have already made friends....

Anyway that was part of my first day.
Everyone meet Sinclair :)