The scenery is ever-changing for us. This is what a lot of today was. Green grass. Green trees. Lots of rock.
We pulled off the interstate so that we could do a driver change, and the exit we picked just so happened to have a dinosaur museum. We had to pull in and quick snap a picture because it reminded us of Mark’s nephew Caden and niece Adilyn.
I got to drive because Mark needed to get a little more rest. That meant I got to pick the music and I had a great time singing along. And this was my co-pilot. What a funny sight.
We switched back when we got to Billings, and shortly after we got our first glimpse of this. White caps. Mountains in the distance. Snow. We were seeing snow in July. It was so neat. I can’t tell you how much footage we got on the Flip camera, because we were just in awe.
A friend of Mark’s used to live in Bozeman, so she gave us a couple numbers of people to contact about a place to crash for the night. We called her friend Nikki to see if we could use some floor space. She was in the middle of moving but was more than okay with us coming for the night.
Not only that, but when we got to her house, Nikki and a few of her friends were on the porch grilling out for dinner. They made delicious pork tenderloin, potatoes, and corn on the cob, and introduced us to John Dailys. It’s an Arnold Palmer (iced tea & lemonade) mixed with vodka. Great after a long, hot day in the car.
After dinner we started playing whiffeball in the backyard. Paul and Kevin did most of the pitching and Aaron, Mark, and I rotated in the outfield. Until Nikki got up to bat. She cranked it and the ball went flying into the tree and it got stuck. None of us could tell where it was. Paul started climbing the tree to find it. And then we finally saw it, and Paul was in the completely wrong tree to try and get it out. We were all laughing pretty hard.
Mark and I went to a little coffeeshop up the block so that I could finish editing and uploading the vlog. It was taking so long, that we even hung out on their patio after they closed to make sure it went through.
Then we went back to the house and Paul and Aaron had left, but Mike and Alyssa had joined the party. Mark and I did a couple songs for them and we just hung out on the back porch chatting and laughing about what state Bozeman is in. What a fun bunch. Gosh, we wished that we could have stayed longer to hang out with everyone. It was so relaxed and comfortable.
Mark knows how much I love stars, and he’s a pretty big fan, too. So we asked everyone where a good place was to check out the stars. They told us to head up to Peet’s Hill. We drove to where we thought the trailhead was, ended up walking out of our way, but eventually hiked up to the top of this hill and took a little time to gaze up at the stars.
In the morning, we took Nikki and Mike out to breakfast as a thank you for dinner the night before and for letting us crash there. And before we headed out of town, Mark took me up to a different part of Peet’s Hill from where we were the night before.
He got up early and went for a run on this path and came upon this great lookout where you had such a view of the city of Bozeman and the mountains surrounding it. It was a cool sight to see. Too bad we only got to stay in Bozeman for one night.
Until next time,
Jordan
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