A Quiet Day, except for Football

Masonic Hall, Columbia Falls, MT

2019-09-14 Saturday

Today we had a very quiet day, if you define quiet as, no sightseeing. It was NOT quiet during the MSU football game, when I (along with all the other Spartan fans in the world) was screaming murder at the coaches and officials. No joy in Mudville after the worst loss I think I’ve ever seen them take. Time to move on.

I slept in this morning, and Joe made us a yummy brunch of fresh baked biscuits and bacon and eggs. After that, I took Cassie for a walk, and then did laundry (just the linens) and read my book. After that, 2pm local time, was the football game. Time to move on.

At about 7:00, Joe suggested it was time for dinner. He’d been searching on google, and had discovered a 5-star pizza place. Sure, why not? So we got into the Jeep and drove about 6 or 8 blocks from the RV park to what turned out to be a FABULOUS pizza place. Best pizza we’ve had in ages. Better than the pizza places in HP. We told the waitress when she asked, saying we were from New Jersey. Oh, she says—the owner is from New Jersey too! Well, no WONDER the guy knows from pizza! We complimented him on the way out. He is from Verona, NJ. The pizza, as I said, was fabulous.

After that, we decided some ice cream was in order. Again, google was sending us to the best 5-star ice cream, this time in Whitefish, MT, about a 15-20 minute drive from where we are. It seemed silly (no ice cream in Columbia Falls?) but what the heck, it was an adventure. So we drove there. I had the chocolate, and Joey had “huckleberry” flavored ice cream (no, it was not no-sugar-added .) I thought it was good, but frankly, not as good as Thomas Sweet or Woodside Farms Creamery in Newark near Beth. But it was a fun adventure. Whitefish is clearly a tourist-based town. We walked a little bit after the ice cream and looked into the windows of some of the shops— many very upscale stores. Columbia Falls, in contrast, seemed to have more funky places. 

And then we drove home. That was our day! I heard some ladies talking while I was folding laundry, saying the park was 40% busier this year than last year. And that the roads and parking lots were really crowded. So we are not going to try to go up the Going-to-the-Sun Road tomorrow from this west side of the park (the road closes part the way as of Monday, so even the locals may be trying to get a last look at the scenery before that.) Instead we will head west.

I took one photo today, of the Masonic Hall here in Columbia Falls, up across from the pizza place. The building was very interesting on the outside— it was like a cinder block building with NO windows. The entire exterior was painted with tromp d’oeil (or however it’s spelled) paintings. But my phone was supposed to email the photo to me, and it is stuck in “pending”. And I am tired. So it’s bedtime, and no photos for today.