Amazingly enough, every word of that was true! Today was an incredible day, and your boys earned it! Yesterday we had one of our “special chats” and it was necessary to call them out a little in order to set the tone for where the behavior and manners should be at this point in the tour. (For the record, by any other standard, they are amazing. By the standard we have set in past years, they had some work to do.) Over the past 32 hours, I can proudly say they have conducted themselves as well as any choir I have ever seen. Their use of “sir” and “maam” has been extraordinary. I don’t know what got into them, but I like it!
I won’t go into a lot of details about today, but it was very cool! I am sure your boys will have lots to tell you about the Buffalo Jump, where we went this morning. It was certainly a good find by Aaron. The boys were able to go and look at the archeological digs of these bones that date over 2,000 years ago. Thousands of bones lie in these sites and it is certainly something very cool. The tour guides were great at getting the boys the chance to get up close and hands-on with the bones. Isaac Volker found out the hard way why Native American boys were so well behaved back then, by demonstrating one of the many uses of the buffalo scapula bone. Every boy also had two chances to through a spear at a buffalo target to see how difficult it would’ve been to kill a buffalo with the tools of the time. After a good old stop at the very reasonably priced gift store, we boarded the bus and made a wonderful stop at McDonald’s, one of the only places that can feed us, “dewater” us and send us on our way in 45 minutes or less. When lunch was over, we boarded the bus and took a one hour and thirty minute nap that basically brought us all the way to Great Falls, Montana, where we are currently.
Great Falls has certainly rolled-out the red carpet for us. The dinner we had last night was one of the best on the tour so far, with some amazing fried chicken and a number of different salads for the boys to try, “if they wanted to”. (I pretty much made their minds up for them.) A couple of the boys acted like they had never seen a salad before. I am not one of their best friends right now.
The concert went well and afterwards we came here to the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind, which is currently closed for the summer. We have two entire cottages to ourselves, and it is pretty amazing. The facilities have everything we need, with the exception of a good internet connection. Tomorrow should be a great day for us, as we are visiting the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in the morning. Our original plans had us going swimming in the afternoon, but after looking at our accommodations, I think we will pass and just hang-out here instead. The boys will enjoy it much more, think.
Other than that, everything is going incredibly! Each and every boy is doing a great job and gaining a great experience! Tour is coming-up on 1/3 over already, hard to believe.
I hope to have more for you tomorrow!
P.J.
PS – Rumor going around is that the Canadian Postal Service is about to go on strike in the morning. In the event that happens, I will pick-up the extra cell phone coverage for my phone so I can receive emails in Canada without it costing and arm and a leg. Then, we will TRY the email thing and see how much work it becomes. I was going to offer a trial run of a one-way email system anyways; it just may be a little more than I had planned on originally. We have a new printer that will allow me to print while we are on the bus for the first time, which changes things a little. I will keep you posted as we learn more about the status of the mail.
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