May 21st, 2011

Montana.  It is definitely God's country out here.  Being on the train and getting closer to it today some how seemed to be magically taking away my stress.  I wasn't even really concerned with the train being behind.  They had to slow down for the flooding areas in North Dakota.  Which makes sense to me...especially when I looked out my window and saw the water was all the way up to the train tracks.

Is it just me or are we getting a crazy amount of precipitation this year?  First snow, and now rain.  I can't figure out it if I think it is a good or bad thing yet.  All I know is that I am not looking forward to when the mosquitoes finally get to hatch from all this standing water.  Bleh!

I decided to eat on the train for once.  I normally pack myself a lunch but all I had brought with me were some cherry tomatoes, bananas, pop chips, and some kudos bars.  Lets just say I wasn't finding them too filling.  I spoiled myself and ate lunch in the dining car and met some nice people.  There was this nice couple headed to Seattle from Connecticut.  The one guy kept gushing about how much he loved shopping at the store I work at and the other guy was pretty quiet.  Oddly enough they had actually shared dinner the day before with the other man sitting at the table.  He was apparently from Canada.  So it was a nice conversation meeting some new people.

It is good to be home to Montana for my brother's graduation though.  I get to see my family, friends, and some I would consider to be a second family.  It's always nice how you can kind of just fall back into chatting with these people like nothing has happened.  I mean now-a-days the conversation revolve more around playing catch up.  I'm going to do my best to enjoy my time here. : )

Lets hope graduation goes well!

P.S. So much for my diet this weekend! Oy...