Road Trip To Helena

Saturday morning and it was time for yet another road trip. Gary & Patsy and Peg and I headed to the capital of Montana, Helena. We first went downtown to the old part of Helena. We walked around and saw some interesting sights and ate in this part of town. We visited Reeders Alley and saw some of the old structures still there which were being used as shops. There were also pioneer cabins from the 1800's we visited.

We walked to a nearby park where the brass propeller of the U.S.S. Helena stood. To give you a prospective on how big the prop was, I posed in front of it. Pretty impressive!

Next we went to the capital building. We got a chance to look at several floors and at the impressive stained glass in the building. We were going to take the tour of the capital, but by the time the next tour was about to begin, we had wandered around enough to see most of the building, so we decided to head for the Historical Society Museum which was just down the street.

We saw many artifacts of the settlers push to the west at this museum. They had many displays of pioneer clothes, cabins, tools and showed us what life style was like in the early days.

From Helena, we headed to our final destination of Great Falls, Montana. This is one of the places that Lewis and Clark visited. We were going there for one wedding reception and another wedding! That is next....