Birthday Celebration

Had a great birthday weekend. It was nice and sunny and we couldn't ask for better weather. It has been over two weeks since we had any sunshine so it was a welcome sight. We are just basking in the warmth as the forecast is calling for rain in a couple days.

Spent the weekend riding the Harley. On Saturday Gary took me to Rockvale for an ice cream cone at the Quick Stop. With all the water around the bugs were out in force and they are pretty big too. The bike was plastered with bugs.

On our way home we stopped at the Harley dealership in Billings and to our surprise they were serving free hotdogs, so we had one. During the summer, every Saturday afternoon the dealership will be serving free hotdogs and Sunday morning will be serving pancakes. I told Gary that for Father's Day I will take him out for a pancake breakfast.

We got home and then cleaned up the bike for the ride on Sunday and then got ready for dinner. Gary and Jennifer took me out for dinner at La Chalupa here in town. It is a very good Mexican restaurant. The children of the owners take tae kwon do lessons from us. After dinner we were shocked when the kids served me a sopapilla. The oldest girl had overhead Susan Stanton wishing me a happy birthday. It was Susan's birthday too. I shared the sopapilla with Gary and Jennifer, as we were all stuffed after our dinners. It was all we could do to eat it.

Our friends Dale Butterfield and Dick Russell organized an unofficial HOG ride for Sunday. The chapter members were invited and ended up with 9 bikes and 17 people for the ride. We met everyone at the gas station on Shiloh and Grand, Gary's favorite road with the roundabouts.

From Billings we traveled to Lavina then over to Harlowton for lunch, ate at the Sportmen's Club. The food was very tasty. The Musselshell River is still pretty high after the flooding and they sure got alot of water in that area. Hard to believe that the river had gone down some. We were lucky and didn't run into any water on the road or washout areas.

After lunch we went to Big Timber. For the first time on highway 191 we didn't have wind. Seems like every time we ride that highway, the wind is blowing so hard that we practically get whiplash. Stopped in Big Timber for a gas break and then we just hung around and had some cokes.

Left Big Timber headed back to Billings. We traveled the old highway all the way home, very scenic and not much traffic. After the ride we were invited to Pat and Sandi Breckenridge's house for some drinks. Our friends Mary and Vicky were there also. We three all ride the trikes on our group. We are planning our Oregon Coast trip with them in August.

I tried a new drink called Moscow Ox. Sandi and Vicky had these when they were in Sheridan and I can see why the ladies were feeling pretty good. The drink is ginger beer, a shot of vodka and a few spritzes of lime juice. A nice cool summer drink. Gary didn't care for it, so he stayed with his beer.

We left to head home before it got too late. It was 7:00 by the time we got home. Sure enjoyed the weekend, now we get ready for the Deadwood Gambler's Run on Thursday.