Red Wing

These kids are hard to get in a photograph any more - they are too busy and on the run constantly.

A couple of days spent in Duluth, MN

This was the lift bridge that connected the main land to a small Island that we stayed on. We could certainly have stayed here for more days than what we had allowed! Enjoy more pictures by clicking on the bridge!

Walker, MN

As we traveled from Montana to MN, we stopped in Walker, MN and saw the beautiful Leech Lake. It was just the beginning of seeing several beautiful lakes! You would think that we were in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes! Click on the picture to see more.

Here we are at Painted Valley of the T Roosevelt National Park this morning and the humidity was so high that you can see the haze in the distance. We had a very cool day travelling today which was so nice. Tomorrow we head to Duluth, MN. Go up and relax a couple of days before we head down to Justin and Kathy's.

These pictures were taken at Theodore Roosevelt National Park out of Medora, North Dakota. We were expecting to see some wild animals, but only ones that we saw were prairie dogs! Was a nice little drive, but not what we expected to see!

Update to August 14th post

Can you imagine me wanting it a shade of blue??

Check out this once rusty sprocket!

Dave has spent many many hours redoing a bike for me. I got a new one in a 24 inch and found it was a hard one to ride, so we went to a pawn shop and bought an old rusty, yukky 24" three speed and now you can see the wonderful job that he did fixing it up for me! I am very excited about it. Now to just get out and ride it!!!

Have a good week!

August 14, 2010

Pat, Ray and Lillian with Larry in front
Pat and Mavis

Barb and Dave

Wow, it has been a long, long time since I updated this blog, so where do I start?? We currently are in Billings and have spent some time in Great Falls. On Tuesday or Weds. we will be heading to Minnesota to see the grand-kids. Yeah!

While we were in Great Falls we shared time with my sister, Mavis and her family and also time with Dave's sister. We took Barb out to an old ranch where they had many a fond memory of time spent there with old family friends. The house is now empty, but one of the daughters

had restored the house to the original with furnishings and curtains etc for her father's memorial service. It brought many many memories back for both Barb and Dave.

Time spent with Mavis was a little quieter as she is recovering from surgery. She is doing extremely well, but still is not her strong self. We did manage to get her to the fair a couple of times while we were there, so that we could eat some of that good fattening food.

Thursday night we had a family dinner here at Lillian's in honor of our brother, Larry. He was flying out the next day to California to be closer to his children. One of his sons, Phillip was here with him and to take him to the plane to meet yet another son for flying back. He has been very ill and needs to be closer to his children. His wife will be going there to join him the end of next week. We hope that all goes well for them.