July 7-16, 2022

I dropped Rel off at the airport in Missoula and on my way back to Polson, I made a quick stop at a place I saw in a book B gave me called “Places of Peace & Quiet” called the Garden of 1000 Buddhas. It’s completely hidden off a road halfway between Missoula & Polson. It was super cool. It was very peaceful and very quiet. I’ll definitely go there again when I have more time to just wander.

TT, Kenna & Master D stayed a few more days than everyone else and were lucky enough to see the craziest hail storm ever. Our friends that live about 3/4 of mile from us didn’t even get sprinkles, it hit so randomly. And it was still fairly warm outside.

Yet, some of their extra days were so beautiful

When I dropped TT and Kenna off at the airport, I got hit by another hail storm right in front of our favorite burger joint. It scared me pretty good – I thought the windshield was going to shatter so I pulled over and waited it out.

Cherie, Eric, Kenzie & Bridger came up for a week. It’s always so much fun to hang out with them. We saw a couple of bears, walked, talked, ate, laughed and waited and waited for the super moon to show up – worth the wait!!

Bridger was just the right size to help B with EVERYTHING and had a great attitude about it. B definitely needs a Bridger around a lot more often. They were sad to go and we were sad to see them go.

Cinco wanted to go home with them.

I was telling Cherie while she was there about working on a project where I am tagging all of my photos with the kids names so they can each have their own copies of all their photos. In my walk down memory lane, I’ve discovered quite a history of my “obsession with making sure I don’t have bedhead (while traveling)”. I check the back of my head every single day with a mirror – but while traveling I take selfies. So she added to my collection: