Montana

We drove to Montana over the weekend to Nathan's parents' place and had a lovely visit. We spent about 13 hours on the road on Friday (about 11 hours of drive time plus stops) and arrived in time for the boys to get a quick tour before calling it a night (it was the first time they'd seen the new house).

Saturday, we drove up to Garnet Ghost Town. It was a bumpy ride and we ran into some rain to start, but it turned out to be a sunny afternoon wandering the surprisingly intact settlement. 

There was also some sort of festival going on but we apparently arrived at the tail end of that so didn't really participate beyond being impressed by the number of people who'd made the drive. 

And we remembered to take a group picture before leaving...

Aside from our trip to Garnet and some time on Sunday in Philipsburg taking John to a Father's Day lunch and then enjoying the famous candy store and a couple others, we mostly just hung out at the house...playing pinochle and listening to the rain.

Here are some more pictures...

...of the boys during our road trip (they sleep in strange positions, lol)...of Micah and Noah helping chop firewood...of us all managing to make s'mores between downpours...and of Asher, Nathan and I helping hang a few more pictures in the basement. We'd hoped to also help with starting Nancy's rock crevice garden outside but sadly the rain and temperatures didn't cooperate.

And now we're home again with Nathan and Noah back to work this morning. A short but sweet visit. :)