Barrister Bed & Breakfast Helena

... pulled over swap drivers. The driver was parra! Hardly able to put one foot in front of the other. They blasted past and I thought that was the last of them until we came around a bend to an awesome river, and a local hick hangout point. A trucks stereo was blasting country music, a couple of drunken young guys were jumping off the bridge. The zz top gang's driver from before was standing on the bridge wobbling around then yelled pussy's and basically fell off ...

... meals. You sure don't see broasted chicken much elsewhere in this country but the midwest so it is surprising to see it on a menu here in Montana.

I had the BLT and it was excellent with baked baby Yukon Golds halved. Day had the soup of the day as she was not feeling up to having much food. The service was excellent as well as we got our order in after about 10 other people had put their order in and ours came out ahead of ...

... in front of the dam. We feel like Lewis and Clark as we were at the falls on the exact date (June 13) that Meriwether Lewis first saw the falls. We were justt 204 years late. They were awesome falls. Lewis and Clark also found an additional four or five cataracts above the great falls. They had to portage over 18 miles around these falls, and were delayed almost a month.

We alsovisited Giant Springs, also discovered by Lewis and ...

... until it turned south at the town of Livingston (what a great name!). Suddenly, we were back along the Missouri River near Three Forks where the Madison, Jefferson, and Gallatin Rivers join to form the Missouri River. We visited the Missouri headwaters the last time we passed through this area.

We made it to the RV park 8 miles north of Helena about 1:00. Originally, we thought we would ...

... toad" (aka the car "towed" behind an RV!).
 
 

 In the afternoon the weather turned nice again and we tried one of the local mountain bike trails, which my aunt tells me the city of Helena is making a new push to popularize.  It was very pretty but mountain biking is not really for me – too fast to see ...

... site will not let me paste the videos here in the middle of text!***) The ice cream shop next door makes their own huckleberry ice cream but it must have been really good because by the time we arrived late in the day they were out! So tomorrow we will go in search of it again because huckleberries are a uniquely local offering ...

... we couldn't see more of the park in the nice weather, because the plan was to leave Yellowstone for Helena to see my aunt, uncle and cousin who live there.    My mom, dad and sister had also flown in from the L.A. area for a mini family reunion, so we couldn’t have arrived too late anyway.  But Jim said the weather should turn ...

... I failed to mention that we started the session with young James who is only 5, water skiing like a true professional, wiggling his hips and looking very relaxed. That is until Jason said "let's try getting him to cross the wake!" which he was perfectly capable of but clearly didn't feel confident about and so he started crying, while he was still competently remaining on his skis. I have never seen anything so amazing in my life! We were very late getting to bed again!

... for a guided tour and as there were no other tourists around we got a great personal tour by Bobi from the Montana Historical Society ( www.montanahistoricalsociety.org ). Yet again it's the people we meet that enhance our experiences, she had researched much of the history herself actually talking to the daughter of an ex governor getting stories like the hair on the doll in the picture is trimmings from her hair as a ...

Besides the families of the girls I sponsor, Mike and I made some new friends in Manila. At Rosario's field office, Mike discovered that he and one of the staff (Joseph Cubar) share a passion for mountaineering. I wasn't in on the conversations between them, but here is a shot of the two of them reviewing photos Joseph took on his previous weekend adventure. The field agent that accompanied us on our visit with Rosario & her family was Rossana (not sure of the spelling). She is ...