Monday in Montana

Well we have all gone from sleeping in a 1 or 2 bedroom hotel to a large house where we can sleep until we want and that's sort of how this week begins...we ate breakfast around 9...looked at our view....frankly I don;t remember that we did much until we decided to go horseback riding...Jeff and David took the girls, Sarah, Taylor, Hailey & Avery down the mountain....we decided to stop at the 4 Star "Exxon" and have a hotdog and ice cream before we went. Lori and Wendy held down the house for the afternoon.

We saddled up at "Jakes Horses". Now I'm talking some "big" horses here...anyway, the scenery was beautiful...thru streams and up into the hills and back thru the streams. NOTE: Hailey did not stick her horses nose in anyones business on this ride!!!

I think we may have had more ice cream before heading up the mountain.

Taylor had to run for cross country so we (she and dad) pretended to run up a mountain road at about 8000 ft of altitude...I truly thougth my lungs were exploding....so we literally ran about 400 yards at a time and then walked until we could see clearly and would start over, until....I saw something out of my right eye...well it was't in my eye but you know what I'm saying....I looked and quickly told Taylor to "STOP" and walk bacwards slowly and don't speak.....we backed up about 40 yards and then I pointed out a Cow Moose and her calf...besides a Bison we learned that this is about the moost (get it?) dangerous encounter we could experience if went badly. So we gazed for a few minutes and then decided to run and get the rest of the family by car...you know we did not have to stop once running down hill...each step gave us more oxygen...I must admit that not a whole lot more running actually took place the rest of the week....

...Back to the Moose's....We loaded everyone up and drove up the hill and got some great pics...Dinner at the house and a great nights rest...