Okay, so this morning we finally had pancakes. I have to say that while they tasted just fine, the butter burned very quickly and the pancakes had a bit of black to them. I don't know if this is a function of the whipped butter having more milk solids than I'm used to or the heat of propane being higher than natural gas but it is kind of annoying. I will have to figure that out.
We broke down the camp today and we're headed to a hotel in Bozeman. Olivia was concerned that we couldn't find a sock of Ailsa's but we had most everything packed and ready to go fairly early. Olivia went down to the bathrooms (very nice bathrooms by the way) where you can get water and wash up the dishes and wasn't back for a while. She was gone for a long while. She decided to walk by herself down to the lake to see if she could find the sock around where we'd walked the previous evening. She didn't bring the bear spray and came back a little shaken.
Next we drove to Bozeman for a hotel night with showers and a pool.
On the way, we stopped at the Powell County museum complex including a 19th century prison (used until the 1970s), a toy museum, and a saloon museum. This was on the recommendation of the Roadside America extra in the Garmin.
The prison had a great collection of old cars but you weren't allowed to take pictures. The saloon museum didn't have a working saloon (apparently there's one out here that does) but they did have a great pre-prohibition bottle collection. I was excited to see the bottles from Connecticut, Virginia, even Oregon. [Did you know that Bourbon County Kentucky was part of Virginia?]
The toy museum had great toys (the trains could use some work, though), an antique French doll like an old one that Olivia has, and really creep clowns. Quite satisfying.
We stopped at Matt's Place in Butte for dinner on the recommendation of the Roadfood extra in the Garmin. Matt's Place is an old school drive-in owned by 96 year old Mae who was sat besides us and talked about her early years at Matt's as a roller skate waitress. I had the Wimpy (a double cheeseburger) and Olivia got the nutburger. While she thought it might have been a vegi-burger, she discovered that it was a regular burger with a sauce made of roughly chopped peanuts in mayonnaise. The kids had a burger and a grilled cheese with fries and a traditional chocolate shake (yum).
We left for Bozeman and arrived at the pool with not quite enough time for the pool. Not that there wasn't any time for the pool. The kids and Olivia went in but there would need to be serious pool time the next day. We watched TV, I had some of my Zerba wine, and we went to bed.
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