Day 5,6 – Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan 30-31st
We had only a 90 minute drive to get to Helena and the home of the Goldes, lifetime friends of Susan’s family. We arrived in early afternoon to quite a nice lunch spread. Aunt Leila and Uncle Joe were wonderful hosts and we totally enjoyed the visit. They took us out on the town to the Montana Club and to a very lively acapella performance at the local theatre.

We saw the new and very beautiful library that Libby Goldes had a leadership role in building. We were able to visit with Jeff and Libby as well as two of their 4 children, Matt and Elizabeth.

We really like Montana, especially Stephen. He couldn’t wait to wear his cowboy hat. We stayed for 2.5 days and had to take a rain check from Jeff on his offer the spend the weekend in the Flathead Lake Region near Glacier National Park. We'll be back in the summer, Jeff!! Joe and Leila live in a wonderful large Queen Ann-style mansion built in the late 1800s and we stayed on the third floor which is larger than most of the homes we've lived in! They were generous hosts and we had a ball visiting them.

Due to snow in the passes, we had to delay our start on Wednesday but finally set off for our trip through Idaho and Spokane, Washingon. Thank you all for a great visit in Montana.