Wandering Montana

On Sunday (8/23) we took a drive around Flathead lake. The smoke was pretty bad again, but it was still a gorgeous drive. We stopped at Flathead Lake Brewing in Big Fork, MT and had a delicious lunch. We sat out on the patio and had a view of the lake.

Painted Rock Porter

Bigfork is a pretty cute little town so we walked around a bit. There was a great outdoor store that was having a big clearance on all their summer stuff. Hellllooooo fun time for mom!

On Monday the drive from Polson, MT to Three Forks, MT (just outside Bozeman) was 244 miles, so we broke it up by making a few stops. Since we left early-ish in the morning we made the first stop a "get out as much energy as possible" one for the boys. My google skills found a skate park that looked pretty accessible with the Beaver. We made it there, but Jason wasn't super impressed with the neighborhood we had to park in. The address listed for the Mobash Skatepark on their website is actually a good 10-15 minute walk. Oops.

Get some!

There was actually a pair of brothers riding their bikes around and although Hudson wasn't in the best of moods, Porter hung out with them. It's so great to see him already gaining more confidence - being able to approach others and interact with anyone. We didn't stay long, Jason was worried about our home hanging around where it was. 

Side note - number of cowboys seen so far in Montana? ZERO. I feel somewhat disappointed that this state isn't living up to my stereotypes ;)

It's a joke people, don't get your panties in a wad

Jason had heard about a pretty cool place from some fulltime friends 'The Ace People'. So our second stop of the day was at the Old Montana Prison. It was pretty fun, and they even allow dogs so Emma was super excited to come along. 

Guard tower

There's a self guided tour into all the different areas of the prison. Some of the windowless solitary confinement cells were creeeeepy. But the boys got to "try out" some of the prisoner showers which was hillarious.

Don't drop the soap!

There's also a pretty large auto museum, I'm pretty sure the woman said they have over 100 cars. My favorite (other than the blue Shelby Cobra, because duh, that always wins top spot) was a Mad Max original.

Two men enter, one man leaves

We ended the tour with ice creams and the obligatory tourist pic

Crime doesn't pay