Montana Reunion and the Rest of July 2021

 With the departure of the family, we washed linens and cleaned the Happiness Hotel in preparation for its transformation into an Airbnb for Kim and Brigham. We hopped in the car and headed north to Salmon, Idaho, en route to the Hansen Cousins' Reunion in Kalispell, Montana. The drive was beautiful, but smokey as the West Coast burned. The reunion started the next evening at Cam and Sheila Calder's lake house on Lake Blaine. The reunion was great, with good food, wonderful visiting, Cdh1 updates, a slide show of the ancestors and previous reunions, and various daytime activities on our own. We returned home to spend a few days with the Marlpit-Hill Boyntons and dinner with Rod and Vic at Sicilia Mia in SLC. The month ended with a Saturday dinner out with Opa and Annie.

Junkyard Bistro for dinner in Salmon, ID

Opa and the ladies headed to the door after dinner at the bistro

Lolo, MT (lunch stop), like the rest of the state, is Trump territory

KayLynn, Millie, Rees, Dorothy, and Kreg

Clockwise: Kris, Hank, Colette, Millie, Sheila, Cam, Becky,

Chris, SKT, Annie, Allyn

Clockwise: Annie, Allyn, Hugh, Rees, KayLyn, Norma, Grandma,

Dorothy, HB, Kris, Hank

North side of the Calder lake house

Lake Blaine through the smoke

Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell has lots of nice paintings

of the Glacier Park and the area

The building was originally a Carnegie Library

Visiting at the end of the day on the terrace overlooking the lake

Millie, Kris, and Annie

Kris, Annie, Dorothy, Becky, Dickie, and Chris

Dinner is served: Cam and a selection of meat, and beans

Brunch at the famous Sykes Diner and Market in Kalispell

Huckleberry bread pudding and vanilla ice cream

Back on the terrace by the lake

SKT, AW, Hugh, Kris, Dickie

Allyn's photo of the Dickies

Lake Blaine with most of the smoke gone

Cam and Sheila's lake house

The boat house (guest house)

Kreg and KayLynn

Cam made a clearing in woods for dinner

Cam made the tables and benches

The Orem Boyntons and the Marlpit-Hill Boyntons

at Sicilia Mia

Carbonara 

The server stirred the pasta in a hollowed out

wheel of parmesan cheese

On their way back to AZ - Kim is a superior house guest

Donburi, katsu curry, poke, and Korean beef with the

Taylor/Woodburys

The Hansen reunion was excellent. The Calders outdid themselves! Life is back to normal after a fun summer. This is all for now.

OXO

D.