Monday July 2, 2012

We had Danish pancakes with blueberries, raspberries or applesauce for breakfast this morning.  This is one of Charlie’s specialties.  Barb’s nephew and his wife joined us this morning.  We had a very nice time chatting with them.  Charlie had a physical therapy appointment and while he was gone, Barb and I made up a picnic lunch.  When Charlie came back, we all piled into his truck and drove about an hour out of town and stopped for a picnic lunch at Green Mountain.  After lunch, the boys walked down to the creek to play for a while.  Alex fell off of a log and scraped his leg, but he said it wasn’t too bad and refused a band-aid (Mr. Tough Guy).  We used the outhouse before we left and the kids enjoyed seeing that a chipmunk had taken up residence in the building.  I think we scared him more than he startled us.  We drove over to Agate Flats and on the way saw a zorse (a zebra/horse combination) in the pasture on the side of the road.  We stopped to take pictures.  We walked off the road into the flats and hunted for moss agates.  Everyone found some, but Dan was the best agate magnet – he found 41 of them!  Alex was excited because he found some bandolier clips for a 50-caliber machine gun.  Apparently this area used to be a government practice firing range.  Planes would fly over and do target practice as it is a very isolated area.  We drove back to Lander and threw the kids in the shower before heading out to dinner.  We went up to Hudson to Svilar’s – a well-known Serbian steak house in the area.  We all had great meals and enjoyed the appetizers that came with every meal – ravioli and sarma (stuffed cabbage rolls).  We took lots of leftovers home, as the meals were huge.  The kids are writing in their journals and are excited as we are taking the quads out tomorrow.