We spent the morning doing laundry and cleaning the condo so it would be ready for it's next guests. A lot of good, focused effort before we hit the road. The drive would take us over the mountains into northeastern Idaho and then into Montana. The scenery was incredible.
Although we didn't find northeastern Idaho very compelling, Montana turned out to be another really beautiful state. Lots of rolling pasture lands that stretched on and on, giving a new definition to the concept of 'isolated'. We saw a beautiful rainbow near the metropolis of Ennis, Montana. We stopped here for our dinner. It was pretty awful as flavor/quality goes, but it was a great experience dining in this tiny cafe in this little town of roughly 800 people.
We have been trying to reach our friend Fred for almost a week now to schedule a get together here in Montana. In truth, he's the main reason we're heading up to Glacier National Park. For years he regaled us with tales of the beauty of Montana in general, and Glacier in particular. For years we've talked about how much fun it would be to lead a group of fellow Alleluia-ers up to Montana to have Fred show us his stomping grounds.
Yet for the past week, no response to the messages I've left him. Disconcerting. Through an amazing series of tiny Divine interventions, we finally make contact with Fred when we're about 30 minutes outside of Helena, where he spends half the year. Gena was able to talk with him for a couple of hours in our hotel lobby while I sat watch over our sleeping kids. Tragically, his work schedule was such that he wasn't able to show us around Helena or Glacier or anywhere else. In one of the running themes of our travels, we added this to the list of things to do 'next time we're in the area'. Fred gave Gena lots of pointers on Glacier though, which will hopefully prove to be helpful.
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