Havre

We arrived at Alan's about the same time that he got home from work. He went for a bike ride and Don for a run. He fixed us dinner--like it when my kids cook for us.
On Saturday we packed a picnic and headed for Chinook to meet Kodi, Alan's girlfriend. Our destination was the Bear Paw Battlefield about 17 miles out of Chinook. This is the site where Chief Joseph surrendered to the calvery, but as we learned, not before putting up quite a battle. We ate our picnic then set out on the 1 1/4 loop trail with brochure in hand. It was windy but we didn't complain as we read that not only was it windy Sept 30-Oct 5, 1877, but the rain turned to snow. The Nezperce camped at this location to rest on their way to Canada and freedom which was only 40 miles away. They thought they had put enough distance between them and their persuers. The 400 Nezperce including woman and children made camp, killed a couple of buffalo and prepared to rest. Not much later, the calvery was seen closing in on their encampment. They held them off for several days, but in the end Chief Joseph needed to put a stop to the suffering of the children so he surrendered. Chief White Bird and a group of warriors did escape to Canada. This is the site where Chief Joseph's famous quote "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" was uttered. Having lived on the Camas Prairie in Idaho which is steeped in Nezperce history, this was particularly interesting. There are no pictures as Ann forgot to put the card back in the camera!!
Sunday was pretty much a football day. Alan tells me that this weekend was the first weekend since sometime in September of 2007 that the Cougars, Huskies, and Hawks have all one on the same weekend. We went out to dinner and Kodi returned to Malta.
We are waiting for the morning chill to leave then we are going to go wash the bugs off the car--lot of grasshoppers on the way to the battlefield.
Untill next time--