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08/01/2007 Entry: "Forsynth to Lame Deer"
Holy cow welcome back me omgzorz!!1 It is I, and I have returned from Josh and Beths wonderful wedding. It was about as awesometastic as weddings get and they through a great party. Everyone yell "Congratulations!" in the general direction of Jamaica. Also, I know the entries are a bit out of order. Sorry. Gremlins are responsible, and if I try to fix it they'll do horrible things to my ... man bits - Sorry for the inconvienence but I'm sure you folks will be able to figure it out. Soooo - After driving 17ish hours straight Qehn and I arrived in Forsynth around 12am. We slept in the car and enjoyed a strobelight lightening show. We said our good-byes that morning and I set about wasting a day in Forsyth waiting for the rest of the group to show up. (I arrived a day early) After some hard-core laundromatting and extreme napping I met up with the group at the library and we partied like it was WAY too hot outside to party. That night we slept hidden away in a dugout in a park and swam in a nearby river. It was refreshing, even for me, who hadn't ridden that day because HOLY COW it was hot. The ride to Lame Deer was mostly unventful for everyone but Ariel who is a tad bit heat sensitive and had serious issues not exploding. Yesterday was her hardest day yet. For the rest of us it was just a bit annoying. (The opposite of todays ride, but she'll explain that later) To her credit though it was the hottest morning we've ever had. That afternoon we had some intermittent cloud cover but it was too little, too late for her. Luckilly she is a Ninja and thus able to handle anything. Lame Deer is on in the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. We were a bit nervious about staying there because we didn't know if we'd be able to find a place to stay. As it turned out it was extremely easy. I got into town about 2ish and knocked on the door to the Catholic Church first thing. Deacon Joe answered and the rest is wonderful history. For those of you living under a rock (Ariel) yesterday was the Fourth of July. The Cheyenne were celebrating with a huge fireworks display, outdoor anti-meth concerts all night, and a huge powwow on the 5th. Deacon Joe had much of his family (kids, grandkids, etc) visiting. He let us stay in the church and invited us to eat with his family in a potluck style yummy dinner experience. Then we went to the fireworks (which I'll elaborate on later) and afterwords we hung out with his family behind the church blowing up copious amounts of their own fireworks. We also got a tour of the church that was extremely education and pretty cool. Cheyenne customs intigrated with Catholic teachings makes for a cool piece of pie. So, fireworks... The Northern Cheyenne Nation does fireworks pretty cool. They have this huge hill (we are in Montana, after all) that they launch them off of. Before they start they cover the hill in volunteer firefighters. They then procede to light the hill on fire several times with the fireworks. There must have been ten or more decent-size fires from low exploding fireworks and falling ash. It may have been the coolest fireworks I've ever seen. Not only do things explode, but they LIGHT THEIR HILL ON FIRE and then we get to watch them put it out. Most towns are all like "oh no, better not light our stuff on fire." Lame Deer, however, is all like "Hey, lets light fireworks off on our super flammable hill cause we're just that awesome!" So, a big thanks to Deacon Joe and his family and to the Cheyenne for being so welcoming and for the great show! Ariel will follow with a Lame Deer to Broasdoafhkdhf-something update and we may do a picture update today, we may not. SUSPENSE! ILYQ
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I miss you, Pookie. Be safe and avoid the bees!
Posted by wifey @ 07/05/2007 08:47 PM CST
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