Cold in Summer, Monday, 7/21/14 and Tuesday, 7/22/14

Monday, July 21, 2014

 The weather was beautiful today—overcast and in the low seventies with a nice breeze.  Cindy worked at Nevada City, and Chuck worked at the gold panning operation with Duel.  They did the weekly cleaning of the panning troughs, and both of them pulled some muscles.  Cindy was supposed to work there today, but Chuck kindly switched with her so she didn’t have to do the lifting.  What a gentleman! 

Daniel went with his parents to Yellowstone National Park today, and it was Connor’s day off so he went to Helena to see his parents.  The only inn mate around this evening was Elise, so we shared a light supper with her and then we all went next door to the rehearsal hall and sat around like nerds working on our computers. 

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The day started off hot.  Chuck played train engineer, and Cindy worked at the Virginia City depot and greeted him every hour when the train arrived.  By early afternoon it started raining and then turned cold.  It’s hard to believe, but it was so cold that we broke out blankets for the train passengers to huddle under.  Chuck did not have a jacket, and he came in the depot to try to warm up for a while.   By the time we got off work, it was nice shirt sleeve weather again.  It was very bizarre, but the locals claim it was a normal Montana day. 

Daniel had to work today because a preschool group came for a special tour and Daniel was their tour guide.   Daniel took them around Nevada City and then he took them to pan for gold.  One little boy clung to Daniel’s hand for most of the day.  Meanwhile, Dan and Kerri (Daniel’s parents) hung around town and got to see Daniel in action.  They also did some gold and garnet panning today. 

When we got home around 6:30 p.m. Dan and Kerri had supper prepared for all the inn mates again.  Tonight we had tacos with all the fixings—even homemade pico de gallo.  After supper we sat on the porch and enjoyed the evening. 

Inn mate Libby leads ghost tours about two evenings a week, and tonight was one of those nights.  The first stop on the ghost tour is the Bonanza Inn where she tells several ghost stories about our home.  She doesn’t like us to sit outside when she takes a group by, so she texted Daniel and asked that we all go inside.  We went inside the kitchen and sat in the dark while her group was outside.  Chuck and Daniel got the idea that they were going to set off their car alarms to scare the tourists, so we all hovered around the window trying to see their reactions to the alarms when they sounded.  Unfortunately, we were disappointed because the lights of the vehicles went on first and not a soul seemed to be bothered by the loud noise.  However, we are pretty sure that Libby was not too happy about the interruption and we will probably all hear about it tomorrow.