We left El Centro a month ago, and said goodbye to many friends. Woody, my lunch buddy and photography companion, decided it had been too long, so he and his wife Marilyn arranged a trip to visit us. They traded the 110-degree weather in southern California for the beautiful budding summer days of northern Montana. It was awesome to see them again so soon, and we showed them all the sights. We started with Flathead Lake:
Naturally we headed to Glacier, where they oohed and ahhed as we climbed Going-to-the-Sun Road up to Logan Pass. I love this shot of me and Woody exercising our cameras:
We toured downtown Bigfork and saw– you guessed it– the Big Fork.
They asked about the Miracle of America Museum down in Polson. In six years living here, we’d never visited it, so we piled into the car and gave it a go. I feel like it should be called the Miracle of Some Guy’s Rusted-out Junk, but I’m a bit cynical. Woody (a historian) enjoyed the historic vehicles and displays.
Marilyn is a retired English teacher and plays Scrabble online every day. She and I had played a couple games back in California, so I brought out my board.
She looks like she’s struggling with a word here, but the truth is she absolutely crushed me. She has lots of practice (I haven’t played in years) and knows all those unusual words that are useful in the game but never used in actual spoken English.
All in all, it was a grand time and we’re looking forward to getting together again soon… likely in the winter, when we’ll trade twenty-below temperatures here for seventy and sunny there.