Sure Enough Good To See You, But It's Time To Go

So I guess it is pretty amazing how the end of the week always seems to go faster than the first half. Kinda like the gas in your car.

Just, thank goodness for a busy week at work to keep my mind off my loneliness and boredom. Oh my, I am the biggest baby. I am sorry.

Welcome to the long weekend. Who doesn't love a day off work because of a dead English queen? So lets put some real news on here.

Last weekend, Ginger, Sarah and Cody went to New York City. They were left in a bind about how to get down to the airport in Great Falls, so they asked me if I could drive them.

So with a Ford Freestar, Friday off, and my ipod filled with awesome music, we headed down to Great Falls, for the third time in about six weeks....it has become my second home.

After a non blog worthy Thursday night, we headed to the airport early on Friday morning so that my East Coast Travelers could catch their plane to Denver, and then on to New York City.

When we got to the airport...an hour early...the lady at the ticket counter asked what flight they were leaving on. Ginger told her they were leaving on the 9:45 flight for Denver. The ticket lady, quickly told us that, that flight left at 7:05 earlier that morning.

We all looked at the flight schedule and sure enough we had read it wrong, and missed the flight. I thought that Ginger was going to die. How could she mess up on getting to her city. The ticket lady told us that the next flight wasn't leaving until 3:00 later that afternoon, which meant they wouldn't get into NYC until 1:30am.

I was excited to spend the day with the gang, but after a quick check of the other airline, they were able to secure the last three seats on a plane headed to Minneapolis, and then on to New York, only putting them half an hour behind schedule. So we quickly said our goodbye, and I started my road trip, alone.

Because this had been my third trip to Great Falls without seeing "The Falls" I made a quest to find the falls. I went to River Drive and followed the river until I found the Falls, which I must admit, are anything but great.

I made friends with all the geese around the river. Flick was beside herself when I showed her the pictures of my new friends. And then like the hobo I am, I fell asleep under this tree, in a wonderful little park across from the Falls called Peace Park.

After the nap I applied for two jobs, at Party America and Big Bear Sports Outlet. The lady at Party America was really excited, and interviewed me right then. I am sure she will be sad when she finds out that I can't take the job.

After a bit of lame shopping, and a trip to our Holiday gas station, I decided to head home.

In the tourist book I had picked up, it said to that Highway 89 up to Glacier was the most scenic highway in all of Montana, so I decided to take that way home. And in the process stopped at every Scenic Outlook and Historical Sight along the way.

I ended up in a small town named Choteau, where I went to a Farmers' Market and bought some bread and honey. And drove to a beautiful lake with a lighthouse, for some odd reason, Lake Frances.

It took just over 4 hours to get home, but it was a really enjoyable drive. I put the Ipod on shuffle and there was no skipping songs, just straight music and singing the whole way home.

So now, a week later, not much has been going on .It seems like a lifetime since I made that trip.