What a weekend Gary and I had, been on the road for three days.
Friday we went to tae kwon do class for the black belt pre-test. We have two students who are testing for their first degree black belt. I also turned in all the paperwork for the test and the tournament for the 26th. We have 8 students who will be competing in the tournament. Three are grandkids. Brandon, Alexus and Mariah will be competing. I hope that I can get some great photos of the kids. After class we went out to eat. We found a new place to eat in the Heights. It has probably been there for quite some time, but we just found it. It's called Montana Jacks, a casino and restaurant. The food is great and very reasonably priced. We also found out where the new Sonic drive in is, but that place is so busy that we will have to check in out later in a couple month. Traffic is backed up on Main Street with people waiting to get in the drive in.
Saturday was a Patriot Guard board meeting in Bozeman at noon. We got there right on time, found the meeting room. The deal with these meetings is that the Patriot Guard will get the meeting room for free if we order off the menu. Gary and I decided to split a cheeseburger with fries and we both had diet cokes to drink. Our meal came and we got a hamburger. We only got about 5 choices off the menu and no prices were listed. We figured we would be safe with a burger. It was ok. Had the meeting. Gary and the other guy representing Eastern Montana get the privilege of organizing the Gathering of the Guard this year. It will be held in Billings on the last weekend in June. Neither one lives in Billings, the other guy lives in Roundup. They are going to have to get together and find a place, but they need to get moving on it so that the general membership can make plans. Before leaving Bozeman had to pay for our burger. Our meal was $14 for just a burger, fries and two diet cokes. What they did was charge the group a gratuity and then she had to split the gratuity up amongst all of us who ate. I really don't like being forced to pay for someone's wages. Nothing at all was on the little menu we had stating that a gratuity would be added for a large group.
Sunday was our HOG chapter meeting. This is the last one indoors until October. Next month we start our riding meetings. It was a very short meeting as afterwards there was a riders safety course offered. Gary was asked to be a road captain and all the officers are defacto road captains. It was interesting, but not much for me to do because I'm a passenger. The place that we meet is Bones Brewery but they have been going through a remodel so their kitchen is closed. We ate before we got to the meeting. Once we arrived we found out that Bones had brought in a cook for us. Many did order off the menu. We eventually ordered a basket of onion rings to snack on for the safety course.
The weekend went pretty fast, but we better get used to it because they are going to go by once we start riding and summer gets here.
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