4:30 AM we are up and leaving to drive Debbie and Bill to the Bozeman Airport. It is an hour away. We saw the sun rise. It just fills up the sky. The3 sky is just so BIG out here.
In the afternoon Daddy and I drove to Three Forks, Montana where the 3 rivers meet: the Madison, the Jefferson and the Gallatin. This is the headwaters of the Missouri River and it is all east of the Continental Divide. That means all of the water flows eventually to the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean. The Indians used to find chert and black obsidian here on the banks. Today the ranchers move the horses from their winter pasture to their summer pasture. They round them up and drive them through the town's streets. There must have been 500 of them and they all looked really healthy. It is a yearly festival at this time. There were stalls of food and items to buy, thrift shop articles, and an auction to raise money for the town. They auction off these stick ponies (like toddlers play with) for over a hundred dollars. The idea is to help the town. They had a band playing on the veranda of the Sacajewea Hotel. We walked around the town and went in the museums. Brad they had a display of N gauge trains with a landscape that looked like the real surrounding land. It even had plastic dinosaurs where the college has found real dinosaur bones. It is really a different way of life here. And you really have to drive far to go someplace. We must have driven 250 miles today alone. But we're loving it.
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