Weekend Update

Gary and I both took Friday off from work and we made our way to Meeteetse on the Harley. We left Hardin around 8:00 am. We went out for breakfast, then came home and packed up the bike. The weather was great. It was on the cool side, but very comfortable on the bike.

We met the Grandmas at Lucille's Cafe for lunch, then we went up to the house to unload the bike and regroup. About an hour later we decided to make our way to the shooting range so that Grandma could watch her Regulator friends shoot. However, when we got there they were done shooting and the guys were waiting for their ride back to their motels. Grandma did get to visit for a few minutes. It was kind of funny because when we pulled up she said that she didn't know any of the guys, but they sure knew who she was. They all were very pleased to see Gracie.

We then made our way to the Oasis to find out what the schedule was for the rest of the day, by this time it was starting to rain. The guys said that they would see her at the Taste of Meeteetse and the women had gone into Cody for some shopping. We went back to the house and visited and then watched the storm roll in. We got pea sized hail. Glad we weren't on the bike when this hit.

We made our way back to town for the Taste of Meeteetse. The Grandmas thought that it started at 5:00, but when we got in town nothing was set up. Found out at the chocolatier's that it didn't start until 6:00. The only thing to do was go to the Cowboy, have a drink and wait. There were only two stations for the Taste of Meeteetse and both were good. The duck group had pieces of chicken marinaded in two different kinds of sauces. One was a rum marinade and the other was a whiskey marinade, plus they had vodka slushes. Those were good. The Mason group had shrimp scampi, fry bread and tiramisu cheesecake. Very tasty. Gary and I did the correct thing and put in equal amount of money in the cans. Then we ate supper at the Cowboy. After supper we then made our way down to the Oasis to sit by the bon fire. Grandma sure enjoyed herself visiting with everyone.

Saturday morning, Gary and I went to Cody to stand in the flag line for the Patriot Guard on the WWII Memorial dedication. We were going to eat breakfast at Lucille's but they were swamped, so we just had coffee then we made our way to Cody to eat breakfast. The Grandmas stayed and ate breakfast at Lucille's. It was pretty cool for the dedication, but at least it didn't rain. There was a large crowd for the dedication, the guest speakers were the Governor, the Wyoming National Guard General and a Bataan Death March survivor. The memorial is very interesting and very large. Just last month they only had the base done and now it's a full memorial. I have posted photos on picasa. After the dedication was over, we made our way to Billings. We got into the end of a rainstorm at Chief Joseph. It wasn't bad and we didn't get wet much. It was the tail end of the storm. Looked like it had rained pretty hard earlier. Glad we missed that.

We decided to spend the night in Billings as we planned on going with the HOG Chapter ride to Absarokee on Sunday. We stayed at the Quality Inn and enjoyed it. They had a big hot tube and pool which was very relaxing after a ride. We ate supper at the Outback. The motel had a "Raid the Fridge" night. At 9:00 they had popcorn, graham crackers, makings for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a snack mix with a cajun kick and iced tea. For breakfast the hotel serves hot breakfast, eggs cooked to order, pancakes, toast, your choice of bacon, sausage links or patties. Very delicious. They also had the regular continental breakfast with cereal and breakfast rolls.

On Sunday we met the HOG group at the dealership for a ride to Absarokee. The route we took was the back road to the other side of Laurel, on to Joliet and then the road over the hill into Columbus. Gary and I have never been on that road and it was nice. Not very much traffic. We had our meeting in Absarokee, then decided to ride to Roscoe for lunch. It was raining in Roscoe, so the group decided to eat lunch in Columbus. We raided the restaurant. Afterwards we all made our way back to Billings. The couple who was leading us took us on the old highway to Laurel and then we were turning onto roads and going in the wrong direction to get to Laurel. Turns out that they were taking us to the new house they are having built by the golf course in Laurel. We all got the tour of the house and they can't wait to host parties for all their friends. While we were having the tour it had rained. We missed it, which was great. That rain cloud was just hanging over Laurel. All around was nice blue sky.

We had a great weekend and trying to figure out if we will have time to take one more ride before I leave on my trip.