Biker Church

Yesterday Gary and I went to Biker Church, at least that is what I call it. There is a motorcycle group called Christian Motorcycle Association in Billings. We have met many of them from the Patriot Guard Riders. The first Sunday in April the CMA sponsors a service to bless motorcycles for the riding season.

We have several biker friends who do this every year and we were invited to attend. Gary really wanted to go. He really appreciates what I gave up this year to attend this event. We got up bright and early to head to Billings. We were to meet our friends at their house at 8:00. It was too cold to ride to Billings at 7:00 am, so we hooked up the trailer and loaded the bike up. We have a rule that if it isn't at least 40 degrees out, we won't ride. It was only 29 yesterday morning. We would have been frozen by the time we got to Billings.

We got to our friends house without any problems and Gary was able to drive through all the new roundabouts without any problems. Unloaded the bike from the trailer and then we sat and visited. Other couples starting arriving. We got all our biker gear on and made our way to the services. The service was being held at the Elks Lodge in the Heights.

We arrived and were a bit cold, immediately we were greeted with a nice hot cup of coffee. Many of our other biker friends were there as well. There were probably about 80 of us there, 50 bikes.

This was a nondenominational service, lasted about 40 minutes. All we did was sing a few songs, then a guy read some passages out of the bible. I think he is an ordained minister. Not a very good reader, but he means well. After the service was done, they fed all of us bikers. We donated money for the food. They fed us biscuits and gravy and scrambled eggs. The eggs were powdered eggs and didn't taste very good, but if you smothered them in with the gravy they weren't too bad.

After eating we all went back outside and the bikes were blessed. There were a couple guys playing their bagpipes. We now have a sticker with proof that our bike was blessed this year. It was all a very nice service.

Afterwards the group decided to go on a short ride. The sun finally came out but it was a bit windy. We didn't go very far, just took the Molt Loop. This is a road that takes you out of Billings and you are about 15 miles north of Laurel.

We got back home around 5:30. We got the bike unloaded and the trailer put away. Jennifer said she would take us out for supper, so we went to Subway.

Not the traditional way to spend Easter, but we sure had a good time with our good friends.