In addition to yesterday being Thanksgiving, it was also Megan's birthday, as well as the one-year anniversary of my last day at Petra Academy. How's that for a trifecta?
After Thanksgiving dinner at home, I finally made use of the going-away gift certificate given by several kind and generous Petra parents a year ago and brought Megan, the girls, and Peaches for a two-night stay at Sage Lodge in Paradise Valley.
We enjoyed some hot tubbing, hiking, watching of The Last of the Mohicans, and thirty minutes of ax-throwing that was more fun than we thought it would be.
Stargazing with MSU astrophysicist Tom Rust kept me outside for two hours in 20-degree weather learning about the universe and God's cosmic creation.
A really great place at the foot of Emigrant Mountain and just 45 minutes from Bozeman, Sage Lodge has comfortable accommodations, plenty of laid-back activities (with nice people who run them), and if you're local, you can get a discount on an overnight stay that includes what we can only presume is a very tasty breakfast (we somehow didn't discover that detail until check-out - whups).
Go in winter or summer (the place is just up the hill a ways from its own private stretch of the Yellowstone River where prime fly-fishing awaits), and enjoy the time.
