South House: Montana: Day 1 & 2

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Montana: Day 1 & 2

The boys and I packed up, grabbed Addie and headed up to Montana for a week. My friend Cortney's parents live there and she was staying with them for the entire month of August. My dad was nice enough to let us use his truck with lots of room for all the luggage that comes with vacationing with two kids.

Hello there Uncle Sam! Please guide us on our way!
(Yes, he is permanently mounted to the dashboard. Yes, he does have a bobble head, Yes, his pointer finger has been broken off.)

Ok, well Uncle Sam didn't do his job very well. Neither did the GPS (I was wondering why it kept telling me that our estimated arrival time was getting later and later.) Yes, let's blame it on them that we ended up in Burley, Idaho. 75 miles in the wrong direction. I obviously am not used to being the one who drives on these adventures. So we made a quick stop at the A&W for lunch, turned around and got back on track. So what if we just added 2+ hours to our already 10 hour drive? It's about the journey, right? Addie and I got a good laugh anyway!

Luke, enjoying Addie's Carmex for lunch.

Once back on track we made it a good 3 hours before stopping in Butte. We found the perfect little park for the boys to run around.

Getting some energy out!

We happened to get a photo of the 12 minutes that Griffin slept. Both of my boys did very well, thank goodness!

We made a very quick stop in Missoula to drop Brady off to my sister Megan. I forgot to mention that he was traveling with us. He had been staying with my parents for a couple of weeks. She lives near Spokane, Washington so this was a convenient meeting spot.

And, finally, we made it! This is the amazing view of Flathead Lake from the Kugler's Deck. They live in Big Arm, Montana.

Our first day we took it very easy. We went into Polsen for the Art Festival where I scored a darling quilt for what felt like stealing it was so awesome!

Griff at the art festival, wanted to take this horse home with us.

Later that day we ventured down to the lake to let the kiddos play. Griff was not really diggin it. It was COLD and he didn't want to go out far enough to really even get wet.