Dad's Day: Mamma Mia and Hiawatha Trail (June 18th and 19th)

 Our Dad's Day this year included an evening live performance of Mamma Mia at the Spokane Convention Center and an overnight stay before heading on to Taft,  Montana on Thursday for our e-bike adventure on the Hiawatha Trail. 

The OG-5 had a quickie Italian meal before the show and was just walking up to the entrance and met up with Thomas, Alyson, and Mylee.  

After the show picture because we did not arrive a second early!

Mom, Papa, Amy, Samee

The Lindolm's stayed at Alyson and Shane's place in the Valley and we stayed at the Double Tree. 

We woke up Thursday morning, grabbed Starbucks, picked up Amy at Alysons and headed to breakfast at the Rose Lake Restaurant.

(Alyson went to work and Mylee and Thomas had his wedding tux fitting in Spokane before they headed home).

We were headed to Taft, Montana and the start of the Hiawatha Trail, where we had rented e-bikes for a 15 mile scenic, independent ride with 10 tunnels and 7 trestle bridges that would take us back into Idaho.  

The start of our ride!

The very first tunnel was a 1.5 mile doozy.  We had bike lamps on the front but they were not that great.  I was thankful to finally see some light. 

This tunnel had a half way point marking and we were told that the Idaho tunnel crew and the Montana tunnel crew met there and that the tunnel met within an inch of each side.  Pretty amazing. 

This pretty waterfall was right outside of that tunnel.

Heading into one of the tunnels.   The first one was the longest and the others were varying lengths. 

On one of the trestle bridges. 

Samee packed bear spray but the only wildlife we saw was this sickly looking deer. 

We made it to the end of the trail and back in Idaho!

We had to wait for our turn on the shuttle bus that took us and our bikes back to the shuttle lot at the very first tunnel. 

They unloaded our bikes and we had to bike through the first tunnel one more time. 

That was a tough extra 1.5 mile that we weren't expecting. 

 On our way back to Spokane we stopped in Kellogg to visit grandma. 

We stopped back in Spokane to pick up my car, fill water bottles and use their bathroom.  

I thought about staying one more night but decided to made the drive home. 

Another memorable Dad's Day!