Autumn in Montana

After it snowed last week, I was convinced that winter had come to Montana. However, this state appears to be bipolar in terms of weather so I was super excited that it was 80 and sunny this past weekend. On Saturday we went to Missoula, which is about 2.5 hours away. The drive there is really nice, mountainous, very pretty. All the trees are changing color, my favorite part of autumn.



On the way back, we stopped at the continental divide.



We hiked a short way up the path, which didn't seem to be ending.



View from the overlook.



Fall foliage.



Justin likes to make rock piles when we go hiking.



Wild berries that could have been food had we gotten lost or could have been the cause of our slow death from dehydration and dysentery.



It was homecoming weekend for the University of Montana so Missoula was packed. We had lunch at Red Robin (a real restaurant, gasp), went to the used bookstore, walked around the mall, and ended our trip at Best Buy. We went a little overboard on shopping, but that usually happens when we are back in civilization. We got 10 or so books at the bookstore, I got 2 pairs of jeans that actually fit, Justin got a new headset for his computer gaming, and we got the first 5 seasons of The Office on dvd because they were on sale cheaper than we have ever seen them.


Yesterday it was still gorgeous outside so went down to Giant Springs in the afternoon for a nice walk along the river. Here are some pictures from our walk.




Where's Justin?!








Shoes.





Hopefully that snow was a freak occurrence and it stays nice at least until Halloween.