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The Bozeman Beach

Sacagawea School

The Dinosaur Park Tire Swing

Stacking rocks with Grandpa Mark

Ezri and her early morning conversation and puzzle partner

Locked in at the Gallatin History Museum

Dress-up Box at the Gallatin History Museum

Ezri, your dad is right behind you and about to toss a full cup of water at you.

Sand construction

Ezri with her “sand-woman” named Sandy. She then made a little brother “sandman” named Sander for Sandy.

Sandy and Sander

Uno Game – victory is important to both kids

We stayed within walking distance from this store which had Pokemon cards for the kids to browse.

Eric bought the kids nose flutes at the Inland Octopus toy store.

In front of the rental house on leaving day

We toured the science building and the library on campus. Ezri loved the sparkly crystals the Geology department owns and displays in the science building.

Playground time

Splash pad

Round two of gelato at The Patisserie. Ezri’s aunt and uncle signed their wedding papers in this sweets and coffee shop five years ago which was worth celebrating with gelato. And then we needed to go back because the gelato was delicious.

On the plane to Bozeman

Wonder Woman movie viewing with Amanda and Grandpa Mark. We had the whole theater to ourselves. It was great to share the Amazonian heroics.

Bozeman Beach

Ezri made a sand bunny with duck feather ears.

The first rule of vacation was No trips to the E.R. Rule 2 was Have fun. Somewhere much farther down the list we had to add No tossing sand in the air.

At the grandparents’ house

Morning work on the deck. Mark is browsing social media. Ezri is drawing cute versions of farm animals.

Stegosaur hat from Amanda’s youth rides again.

Love this photo of the happiness.

Chico Resort & Hot Springs
Eight is old enough for a trail ride with great views of the mountains. Ezri pointed this out last year when she was a mere 7 and was so thrilled we returned this year so she could ride.
Ezri rode Mike and Amanda rode Rowdy. If you were worried, Rowdy hasn’t been rowdy in years and years.

Clark’s Fork restaurant has bacon, pancakes, and sunflowers.

The kids enjoyed the annual sweet pea festival parade which featured a children’s hockey team handing out popsicles on rollerblade skates and a cadre of therapy ponies and miniature horses. The street cleaner truck spraying water as the grand finale was a fan favorite. Also, it cleaned up some horse poop.

Ezri and Ivan found a tomato shaped like butt in Aunt Pat’s greenhouse.

On the walk back to her grandparents’ house from the Bozeman Beach.

Three generations

Learning about Grandma Tam’s looms

Enjoying a stay at Chico Hot Springs

Riding and learning about horses at the Chico Barn. They even let her wear cowgirl boots and pink chaps.

Learning to balance so no hands are required to stay in the saddle

Her favorite thing about vacation was the beach and the Wookiee woods. The nature path near the house was declared Wookiee Woods and had excited things like real dragonflies, real snakes, and the imagined threat of stormtroopers and Wookiee-eating giant cuckoo hawks. “Two lefts and a right?” she says trying to remember the way through the Wookiee Woods to get to the beach.

She also enjoyed the perpetual motion machine at the Museum of the Rockies, learning to weave from Grandma and the lady at the museum, playing in the prison cell at the Pioneer Museum, Taco Tuesday on a Monday, the restaurant with the chickens, the new RV, making the couch cushions into “Bouncy Funland,” and playing sleeping queens and uno (even if she didn’t win at either game).

A proper reward is important after a nature walk.

A S’mores lesson

Storytime at the campsite

Rainy day hike

Breakfast at the tent cabin

Hanging out by the campfire