Before Cassie and Jonathan moved to Missoula, Montana, I really had no idea such it existed. (See, even now, my auto-correct squiggly red underlines it.) And while I would never want to visit during the long, cold Montana winters, it was such fun to visit in May. Nearly all of the Barber clan went up to see Jonathan graduate from law school.
Before we left on the drive, we surprised the kids with their own Kindle tablets (for both their sanity and ours) as the trip would be 8-9 hours long.
Unfortunately, we picked up a little addition on our drive. Namely some sort of kind of large bird that got itself enmeshed in our front grill. Let me tell you what a joy that was to pull out. Luckily, I have a lovely husband who took care of it with only a few disgusted grimaces.
That night, we enjoyed a delicious dinner at a local Italian restaurant and got settled in our hotel. (With an attaching door to Pa and Nana's room, of course!) The next morning, we got dressed up and headed to the graduation. It was a lovely ceremony.
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| Theo, Jonathan, Cassie, and baby to be! |
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| Isn't Cass just gorgeous? |
The boys were pretty good, but I could tell they were ready to release some energy, which included chasing around the oddly friendly and definitely chubby squirrel population on campus.
While there, we hit the local museum, which included lots of trains, and a really cool forest ranger look-out.
We braved the rain and did a small hike, which was just beautiful.
We walked over the bridge, did some local shopping, and played at the most amazing park.
We enjoyed lots of visits to this place. Oh yummmmmmm.
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| Left to right: Bryce, Cassie, Pa, Jack, and Nana |
And of course lots of visiting with our wonderful family.
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| Left to right: Danielle, Randa, Jenny, Cassie, Tammy, Carol, and Nana |
Anytime we travel with family, we have a great time and this was no exception!
