The rest of the Montana post!

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There was some miscommunication at the Cerney household, and I must have told Holly I had no pictures from Montana. But then I saw her lovely picture-less post and thought, "hey wait! I do have pics" Not a ton here, but it's something. Here's Holly and I on our first Brockless run, and what do I do? Take us down the longest steepest mogul run with no way out but through. Whoops! This is rest break 2 or 3. oh my.


I'm thinking, "why do mountains never look steep in pictures?"




Day 2 and the Brockman is back with us


Fun tunnel


We had great noodles here, but this cat on the counter just wouldn't stop waving at Alice. 

Snow Penguin!


Montana had a pretty incredible dino museum.

Imagine diving with this guy!

But not this guy.


So many Ceratopsids!

This scene certainly doesn't look as ferocious as it did in person. I can assure you though Brock was just excited about the vicious Dino attack going on. 

It was a perfectly sized museum to kill our last couple hours in Montana, but sadly now Alice thinks "museum" means a place with huge awesome dinosaurs everywhere. Our recent trip to the Covid-ruined Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (which is now an enormous child torture device: here's 10,000 buttons. don't touch anything!) had her quite sad. "No... Go to MUSEUM!" Anyhow, it was an amazing trip. Brock conquered the slopes, Alice conquered her first daycare, and Holly and I skied with eachother for a whole day. Lovely. 



 

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