Trip to Montana

I decided to join Americorp this year and am going to be working with a Financial Literacy program in Great Falls, MT. So on January 13th, after my nephew's birthday party, I started off for Montana.

My mom had previously offered to drive up with me so we decided

to make a bit of a road trip out of it and go and see Roswell, NM.We loved the tv show and thought it would be pretty fun to see and it was! We were expecting a real desert, but tv lies and it looked more like the prairie of West Texas. We went to the International UFO Museum while there. I overheard a little boy ask his dad a question and the dad incredulously responded, "You know that none of this is real, right?" and then the little boy replied "Then why are we here?". When I told my mom that story, she said she overheard a little boy ask his mom if aliens were nice and she said that it depended. Some were nice, some weren't. :-p We were hoping to hit a cheesy, touristy diner like in the tv show, but the only thing anybody knew of that was remotely like that was a McDonalds shaped like a UFO, so we checked that out.

Our next stop was going to be to to visit my sister, Emma in Utah but on the way up there we saw a sign for Arches National Park and decided that we just had to stop. It was beautiful!

Then we finally made it up to Provo, UT and got to see my sister, her roommates, and her boyfriend. My friend Mark, also drove down from Salt Lake City on Sunday to hang out with us. It was a really fun weekend!

When hanging out was over, I dropped my mom off at the Salt Lake Airport and drove the rest of the way. It is beautiful up here! Soon I'll write an update on my first week in Montana.