Wednesday, 7/23/14 and Thursday, 7/24/14

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

It was a warm day, and Chuck worked at the River of Gold by himself.  He stayed busy, but the most excitement he had was spotting a rat the size of a cat in the office closet. 

Cindy worked at the Nevada City museum and it was rather slow.  She did get to meet a family from Switzerland.  The oldest daughter is 16 and has spent the last eleven months as an exchange student in Portland, Oregon.  She just recently finished her high school freshman year and her parents and younger sister flew over here to join her for a three week vacation before they all head back home.  The oldest girl spoke fluent English and the rest of the family spoke just a few words, but they said she was teaching them English.  So far they have been to Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainer, Glacier National Park, and they are on their way to Yellowstone National Park before driving back to the Oregon Coast.   

Cindy got off at 6:30 p.m. and walked to the River of Gold where Chuck was still babysitting three people who were panning for gold.  He was finally able to close out his till and get off work at 7:00 p.m.  We went home and had to cook our own supper tonight because Daniel and his parents went to tour Butte and Helena today.  The rest of the inn mates were nowhere to be seen, so Chuck went to watch a Netflix move at the rehearsal hall and Cindy piddled around in the air conditioned room.  

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Today was our day off and we set off for Bozeman at 10:30 a.m. to shop for groceries.  We saw a couple of deer along the roadside on the way, and then we saw a family of ducks in the mall parking lot.   We stopped and ate Mexican food for lunch and then headed to Costco and Wal-Mart where we bought enough food for a small army. 

We got home at 6:15 p.m., and after unloading groceries we went to the rehearsal hall where the inn mates were in art mode.  Some inn mates are more talented than others.