new places

today we went places most of us have never been.  i love to go new places.  i love to see new things.  someday i want to say i've been everywhere, even though i know that probably won't happen.  i will be able to say that i've been a lot of places though and so will my kids.

we left our house this morning as soon as jake got home from efy.  we drove north.  when we stopped driving we were in a city called kalispell, montana.  craig had a case here last year, so it wasn't a new places for him, but the rest of us could call it new.  it looked quaint, but we got in only just in time to grab dinner at the local hamburger and shake place and then head over to our hotel, so we didn't have too much time to explore. 

i had just a minute to sneak into a western type shop that was selling indian blankets.  they had about 200 different patterns hanging from the ceiling.  i quickly found one that i really liked in pretty red and mustard yellow colors and thought i might buy it after dinner.  there were only a few other people in the store.  when i came back after dinner, the one blanket i had my eye on had been bought.  what are the chances of that? 

the scenery around kalispell was beautiful.  we followed the shores of a huge lake into town and the we could soon see the beginnings of the mountains that formed glacier national park.