JUNE 27, 2012 ....... WEDNESDAY

As we stated on our last post yesterday, we had a bad storm.  Today the sun is out but the winds are still very, very strong.  We took a ride to another section of the park which is north of the regular visitors center in the small town of Babb.  Then we continued on and went into Alberta, Canada for a short ride. This part of Canada, like where we are, has very large cattle ranches with flat rolling plains for miles and miles, with the mountains far off in the distance. We did not do much today.  We came back and hit some of the shops and that was it. The wind was strong all day long.  Tomorrow we leave here and head to Great Falls, Mt. about 160 miles southeast. We are about 5 days ahead of schedule.


JUNE 28, 2012 ....THURSDAY through JULY 2, 2012....MONDAY


We left Glacier National Park this morning and headed for Great Falls, Mt.  We called the campground where we are to rendezvous with the caravan to see if we could get a site earlier, but they are all full.  We are scheduled to camp there a week before (July 3rd) our caravan rendezvous on July 10th so we need to find a place to stay for 5 nights.  Jesse called the VFW in Great Falls and they told us to come on over, they'd find a place for us.  We arrived there late in the afternoon and they set us up in their parking lot and told us to stay as long as we'd like.  Very nice and accommodating people.  Dry camping for 5 days,,,,,hmmm,  we'll see how that works out.  We felt funny staying here that long, but they insisted that we stay.  On Thursday night we went into the VFW for a couple of beers.  Figured we needed to support their club.  Turns out it was a slow night and we sat with the bartender and his girlfriend (soon to be wife) for hours just chatting.  We had a great time.  Went back in on Friday night for supper (they have a grill going on Friday nights) and another beer or two.  Everyone is very friendly, in fact the Post Commander came in and bought us a drink.  Everyone came and talked to us. Having a very nice time.  They even gave us tickets to their farm teams baseball game for Saturday night.

Saturday afternoon we went over to the visitor center to find out what there is to do in this area,,,,turns out,  there's plenty to do.  We took a nice ride along the Missouri River and then headed for church.  It was one of the nicest masses we have been too.  They had a man cantor with a lovely voice.  Besides the organ there was a trumphet player,,,,,very emotional.  The priest was of Irish decent and gave a wonderful sermon.  Glad we will be here again next weekend to visit this church. Well a quick dinner and off to the baseball game.  Weather is perfect for a game.

Here it is Sunday and Jesse is coming down with a cold.  He's not feeling very good so we decided to stay in and just relax and hopefully he'll feel better tomorrow.  We did take a ride over to the campground where we will be going on Tuesday to check it out.  The caravan that leaves before us on July 3rd was there.  They were all at a pizza party so we didn't get to talk to anyone.  Probably go back to chat on Monday.

Well all is well and we are having a wonderful time, but do miss the family.