The Snow Has Returned

**Blogger wasn't working for me yesterday so I have combined yesterday and today's blogs.**

Our camping trip to Flathead Lake was a good time. We didn't stay in a cabin, we actually stayed in something called a yurt. I had never heard of a yurt before but I quickly become familiar with it. According to Wikipedia: A yurt is a portable felt dwelling structure used traditionally by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. Lucky for us the yurt was heated and waterproof because it rained most of the day Saturday and the outside temperature was about 45. We played some board games and kept ourselves entertained while it was raining. We had to cook outside though so that was a little tricky with the rain, but we managed. The blue cup from the Yellowstone hike even made a return appearence when hot cocoa was made! That was a nice warm up from the cold and wet weekend.

We did some geocaching on the way back to Missoula - we took an intersting trip through the mountains and had a nice drive. We had to travel through some single lane logging roads again, that seems to be a reoccuring thing for us.

Here's a picture of the sunrise over Flathead lake on Sunday morning. The clouds are over the Mission mountains and blocking the snow, otherwise you could see the snow across the lake. Wild Horse Island is in the middle of the picture, the lake looks quite small but the island is actually right along the shore line and it is about 8-12 miles across the lake.

I checked on the swan tags today. Laura didn't get a tag, but I did! Hopefully we will be able to get into some swan hunting when the season opens!

Breaking news - just moments ago the UPS man dropped off my computer! Sorry to cut this blog short, but the excitement of the computer and the swan permit is almost too overwhelming! Until again

-=Nolan=-