Over Some Rivers, Through Montana, to Grandmother's House We Go

On the next leg of our trip we drove through Montana. We made just a few stops and stayed the night in Bozeman, which seems like a really cool town. I can see why my sister didn't want to move away from it. Along our route we were in search of a location for our future retirement cabin.

I think this little Valley would be quite nice. Don't you agree?

What's that? Oh, you don't think snow is fun for "SPRING" break? Neither do I, but snow we found. And it was cold and blindingly bright. This is the Big Hole National Battle Field. It was really interesting and of course Trum earned another junior ranger's badge. If you enlarge the photo you can see that he is wearing them all at once. This site is just ever so slightly out of the way, so I don't think they get too many kids visiting. When Trum got his badge they loaded him down with lots of other free stuff. He loved it!

We left Montana and headed into the home state of Idaho!!! We stopped at my sister Jodi's house for a short visit and then we went on to Grandma & Grandpa Rowe's house. Where we proceeded to treat Trum to all the good time Idaho fun he could handle.

#1 Hot Tubing in some super cold Idaho mountain air.

#2 Shooting guns. Of course.

Jack gives instruction.

A manly procession to check the results.

Trum, it turns out, is a good shot. He hit the can with the rifle and then later with the pistol. He also hit another target later, but this story is already getting to be redneckish and if I tell that story it will just head right over the edge.

 That's right, I shot the gun as well.

Jack getting crazy with the pistol. Do you think his work should know about this?

#3 Horsey rides.

Started off being led.

 Then riding with Dad.

Then all on his own. He was feeling pretty good about himself.
Yee Haw!