A Road Trip to Montana

In late August, we set-out on a partial road trip (flew to Salt Lake City – drove to Bozeman) to visit Lanhua’s aunt and uncle, Sheri and Eric. It was a great journey. Lan saw beautiful animals up-close at Yellowstone’s Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center (http://www.grizzlydiscoveryctr.com), visited Old Faithful and toured a good section of the park. She experienced her first canoe ride with Eric, Steve and Ruddy (Eric and Sheri's Scottie) and went to a fantastic hands-on exhibit for kids of da Vinci’s inventions at Bozeman’s Museum of the Rockies. Her uncle Eric raced his motorcycle in a crazy mountain ride around Big Sky (and took 5th place with a broken foot!!) and her aunt Sheri showered her with an amazing handmade quilt, embroidered Lanhua t-shirt and the best toffee ever. It was really hard to say goodbye to Eric and Sheri and to leave Bozeman. The end of this vacation marked the looming close to our first summer together and the start of a new school year. It’s all very, very good, but each day passes so quickly!!