So, it was a long day of traveling. First, we drove an hour up to Clearwater, Montana to drop Amber off with her Girl Scouts so they could teach some people about bears. The directions to get there were almost useless. They consisted of “Go six miles past the cow statue and turn left.” We tried that, but there are so many turn offs, it could have been anywhere. Instead, we did find a geocache up in campground by the Clearwater River… very pretty.



Then, we managed to get a hold of the Girl Scout lady with directions and figured out where to go. We dropped Amber off just in time to be the Honor Guard Officer - meaning she got to be the one to call the orders for posting the colors.



Then we went back to the Cow Statue at the intersection of State Highway 200 and 83 (which goes up towards Glacier National Park). There were some old cars slowing everyone down on the road.





Then we took a little excursion out into the mountains in the area. We went looking for some geocaches and a ghost town named Garnet. The story about Garnet is interesting and long and as it turns out, this weekend is part of "Garnet Days." So instead of a quiet sleepy little ghost town, it was fully of living people! They had dancing and music and the best thing was that all of the building that are usually closed were open. We walked through the jail, the hotel and various houses. Its funny that the people who run Garnet (the Bureau of Land Management) bring in relatives of people who lived there and they treat it like its there town. The people we talked to told us that Garnet was a really peaceful, quiet mining town because the miners brought their families. On a side note, the town of (at most) 2,000 people supported 13 bars and 3 brothels.




They we went and got lost (sort of) in the mountains. We looked all over for a cache and could never find the right road. Eventually we followed the signs back to I90... and ended up 30 miles from our exit! Apparently, going over the mountain is much much quicker than going through it. We might have been 20-30 minutes late picking Amber up from the Girl Scout thing. No biggie, she was able to help clean up.





We came home and Sarahann made a fantastic BBQ rib dinner. Good times.