montana

this past weekend we went to montana with maddy, brian, adelle and chris. maddy's parents have a place on the US side of lake koocanusa and i was really excited because this is the first time we have been invited out there with them. the lot that maddy's family has is unreal - they have such a beautiful view of the lake. unfortanutely, i forgot my camera (shocking for me, i know) so i do not have any pictures.

anyways, we drove up there on friday night after work. we basically took our usual route out to fernie and then drove an extra half hour across the boarder to eureka, a really cute, little town in montana. as soon as we crossed the boarder the first thing out of jesse's mouth is "i really hope they have a sonic". i seriously could not stop laughing. pretty sure eureka is the american version of fernie, they just got a subway. they definitely did not have a sonic. after we did some shopping in eureka we headed to rexford, about 10 minutes down a sketchy back road, where her parents land is. the oddest thing to me about montana is that the people who own the land also own the road that drives up to the land so, if you get lost and drive on the wrong road you are technically tresspassing and, since we were in american, if you are tress passing the owner of the land is allowed to shoot you no questions asked. i did not like this at all. americans are so odd to me.

anyways, we made it to maddy's parent's place on friday without getting shot, thankfully. since it took about 3.5-4 hours to get there from calgary we didn't arrive until almost ten which meant that very little happened on friday apart from setting up camp and saying our hellos. saturday, on the other hand, was action packed. we woke up, ate breakfast and immediately headed down to the lake. at the lake we loaded onto their boat and boated 2 kms down the lake to an amazing little beach. here, chris's parents, who were on a golf trip in montana, met us with their seadoo. the hougan's were nice enough to let us all play with their seadoo that afternoon. i had never driven a seadoo before this weekend and i loved it. they really are so much fun. after some serious seadooing the girls tanned while the guys went wakeboarding or wakesurfing or something with a wake. it is all very confusing to me but they seemed to enjoy whatever it was they were doing.

so after an action packed day we were starving and decided to go to the local "bar". now rexford had one restuarant, the rexford bar, which had 4 things on the menu: steak sandwich, fried chicken, breaded shrimp, or a burger (american style aka raw on the inside, of course). thankfully, the steak sandwich i had was thoroughly cooked. all and all the food was really good but i found this entire bar concept confusing. we are in the "rexford bar" yet there are five year olds at almost every other table. apparently, in america it is fine to take your children to the local pub. my mind was blown.

so, after our dinner we headed back to maddy's parents place and just had a fire and hung out. the next morning we went into town and got breakfast at the local restaurant, did some shopping and then headed home around two o'clock. jesse and i were pretty anxious to get home since we had left emi with my sister and were really starting to miss her. 

so, after a quick two day trip to america i had learned two things: 1) that americans have every right to shoot you if you get lost on their "road" and 2) children are allowed in bars. americans are seriously odd.