l-o-o-n-g time Sunday (about 12 hours or so) that meant that we had an easy day (about 8 hours) on Monday and arrived at home with some time to unpack, start the laundry, mow the lawn and even take a walk!
I forgot to tell you much about our time at Glacier Distillery. They use cherries in some of their products, and it is prime time for cherries. Lauren showed us the huge vat of Rainier cherries that were fermenting and bubbling away. Yes, there are bits of foreign material in there since they do come from a tree, not a lab! But all that is filtered off so you won't end up with a stem in your cocktail!
I bought a cherry brandy liqueur, Daughter of the Sun, as well as Little Cottonwood which also has some cherry flavor along with other good seasonings. I had a delicious cocktail at the Whiskey Barn tasting room--Daughter of the Sun mixed with sparkling apple juice (at least I think it was Daughter of the Sun, but to be honest I might be mistaken about that after inhaling all those fermentation fumes!)
And since I have a special place in my heart for a good gin and tonic, I sampled and purchased the Glacier Distilling gin. I like that fresh flavor, like a little pine tree in a glass!
I'm not sure why the gin doesn't get a beautiful label like the others, there's one more question for me to take back to Lauren.
On our last day of vacation, we had a bird's-eye view of the Flathead River valley. It was pretty cloudy so the picture isn't the best, but I liked to look all the way over Whitefish, down to Flathead Lake and Columbia Falls just off to the left.
Also, on that last afternoon, we went to Brewfest in the Depot Park in Whitefish. There were several (12-14?) microbreweries present serving up samples of their brews. Not only did it taste good, and we had fun meeting more of the Whitefish folks, but the glass was really cute, too!
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