Wednesday, June 19, 2013 (White Sulphur Springs, MT)

Our morning started out the same as the last several days, with our jog/walk routine.  Boy I tell you, at 5,000 elevation you sure do notice the thinner air.  Hopefully by the time we get down to a lower elevation, we'll really be able to jog without getting so winded.

After our breakfast, our other neighbor was walking by with her little Yorkie, Tibby and another little mixed breed dog which I've forgotten his name already, so I took Gracie outside for a meet & greet.  Gracie is getting better about meeting other little dogs, she is not displaying quite so much submissive behavior and is more friendly.  I think she's finally getting used to dogs her own size.  Now with big dogs, she is very friendly, I think it's because she was so used to Samson our St. Bernard.  Anyway Gracie and I had a nice visit with Donna and her husband Vaughn.  Donna and Vaughn are from Georgia, though they just sold their house and will be moving to the Florida coast, again, very nice couple and a fun little visit. 

The plan today was to take a walking tour of the historic buildings they have in town.  So after we had our lunch, we headed out walking.  Well it was pretty warm out and Gracie was having none of this walking on gravel so we decided to go back and get our bikes.  This is a view heading back to our campground - you can see how rural the area is.

We rode into town, which was only a couple blocks from our campground and pulled out our map and started locating some of the historic sites.  While we were riding around, the town just smelled of lilacs, they were blooming everywhere, it was so fragrant out.  

Here is a picture of a church steeple from a church build around 1910

Here is a picture of the Castle & Carriage House - we plan to go back and take a tour when we don't have Gracie with us.

Here is a pic of a house built in 1889.

Do you also notice those dark storm clouds, they were forecasting thunderstorms again this afternoon, looks like we should head back to the 5er.  But here is another house we saw on the way home.  It looked like it was being renovated.  If you enlarge the picture, it has some interesting details around the windows.

We got back home before the rain came, but yikes, looking out the side window of the 5er, is that a funnel cloud?  I had never seen one before.

  So I quick got on the National Weather Service website and yep, we are in for some SEVERE thunderstorms with large hail, gusty winds and a possible tornado threat.  Wow, we weren't expecting that, so a quick prayer was said while we kept an eye on the weather.  Finally they cancelled the SEVERE weather alert and now we are just under a watch category.  Whew, thank you God.  I'm sitting here updating our blog listening to the rain and thunder, but it hasn't been too bad, I'm just glad that alert was cancelled, that was a little scary for a few minutes.

So another relaxing evening is planned, watching another movie after dinner.  We'll see what adventures we have tomorrow.