July17, 2010

From Great Falls, MT, N47°29.386’ W111°19.942’

Day 43, Hospital Day 15

After a leisurely morning we went to a Farmer’s Market at the Moose Lodge in Black Eagle. It wasn’t nearly as large as the one downtown in Great Falls. We did buy some produce from a Hutterite booth, white radishes, snow peas, turnips, sauerkraut and broccoli. Where ever this colony is their kohlrabi isn’t ready yet.

After the market we drove out to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center for pictures of our 14th buffalo.

We then drove to see Great Springs. Wow! The springs are huge, ok Giant. The springs are about eight feet above the Missouri River and flow 201 feet as the Roe River to a confluence with the Missouri. The spring water is very clear and you can see it flowing with the Missouri for about a half mile before they blend.

There was a wedding party there taking pictures at various points around the grounds.

I did four caches, one in Black Eagle and three more near downtown Great Falls. The fourth one today was my 3000th find.

There is a group of 27 Airstream RVs in the park, mostly trailers. I took a couple of pictures of all the polished aluminum. One of the Airstream motor homes is old style like the trailers and the others are newer fiberglass walled ones.

We hung out at the coach until about five and then went to see Glenna at the rehab center. She was having supper in the day room with two other patients. We chatted there until she was finished with her meal. The surprise was that she ordered a salad topped with chicken strips and ate more than half of it.

We visited in Glenna’s room until eight. We made a quick stop at Wal-Mart for some over the door hooks to hang my hats on. Thanks for the idea, Alan and Joan.

We had a late supper and just relaxed till bedtime.