Day 14 - Coeur d'Alene to Butte
Coeur d’Alene is home to one of the most famous resort golf
courses in America, one Greg has been hoping to play for years. With the Triple Play Amusement Park so
accessible, it was a perfect setting for him to play golf and Aimee & the
kids having something fun to do in the meantime.
Greg had arranged the first tee time of the day a few months
prior, and lucky for him, the two people who were paired with him didn’t show up. In the end, Greg could play a
relatively quick round. Coeur
d’Alene is known for their famous floating green, an island hole built on a
network of pontoons and positioned around the lake with a very complex system
of pulleys. Unfortunately, he shot
a bogey one the hole, but felt some degree of accomplishment of not hitting a
ball in the lake.
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| Famous floating green. |
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| Greg shot a bogey. |
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| The boat that takes you to the floating green. |
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| Driving range into Lake Coeur d'Alene. |
While Greg was playing, the rest of the family took
advantage of some of the other Triple Play amusements. They were able to ride the Go-Karts,
Bumper Boats, and play another round of miniature golf in the two hours before
Greg returned to the hotel. After
packing the room up, everyone put their bathing suit on for another round at
the water park, where we rode the waterslides and played in the wave pool for about
2 hours before it was time to get on the road. All things considered, it lived up to our expectations and we were very glad we included the Holiday Inn Express on our trip plan.
Once back on the road, we pushed our way through to Butte,
Montana. We made one small stop in
Missoula to visit the Big Dipper Ice Cream store. Greg had discovered that Food & Wine magazine included
Big Dipper on their top 10 ice cream spots in the United States, and it was
just about halfway on the day’s planned 240 mile drive. As we sat in the patio area enjoying
ice cream, we noticed a very unusual and bring rainbow over the mountains,
somewhat of a triple rainbow, something none of us had ever remembered ever
seeing. After taking quite a few
pictures to capture the moment, we returned to the car for the last leg of the
trip to Butte. We arrived late, as
expected, having both started the trip at 2:30 in the afternoon and losing an
hour due to the switch to the Mountain Time Zone.
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| Yummy ICE CREAM!! |
After a quick dinner at the hotel restaurant, we retired for the evening. It was a long day and everyone was still feeling the effects from playing at the amusement park all morning. With Greg set to play his second (and last) day of golf on the trip, everyone else was looking forwarding to sleeping in a little bit and getting some much needed rest.
Tomorrow: Cooke City
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