June 15, 2015 - Three Forks, MT to Billings, MT

Edith wanted to sleep in this morning, but Erwin told her it was ime to get out of the bed because we needed to get things put away before we started the road trip again.  It was a gorgeous, but little windy day.  

After getting dressed up and closing the slideouts in Lil' Home (LH) we walked to Keri's house. Keri, Nikkol and Hunter were already up. The rest of the kids were still asleep. Dustin had already left for the day.

Tears welled up in Edith's eyes while she bottle fed Kalista while Keri was busy around the house. Kalista finished the whole bottle of milk.  Edith really enjoyed watching her while she was being fed. This beautiful princess Kalista is going to be missed very much. We wished we could stay much longer and watch her grow up.

After all kids were dressed we all went outside to have family pictures taken.  It is a tradition that Keri takes pictures of us with the kids on the day of our departure. Sasha kept asking me if we could spend one more night or even one more hour.  We explained that we have an engagement next week and needed to leave today. If it was possible we could stay.  The hardest part was hugging each one of them and telling them we loved them.  We thanked Keri for everything she had done.  It was a hard pill to swallow knowing the fact we are leaving them.  It was our home since April 3rd with the exception of two weeks when we traveled to Idaho and Washington. 

Edith drove the Jeep to Super Walmart in Bozeman, MT and waited for Erwin to arrive in LH.  Erwin needed to turn in the dead battery at Walmart to get the deposit back.  

At Walmart we hooked the Jeep to LH and left Bozeman at noon.  We headed for Billings MT via I-90 E. Rain clouds started to appear few miles east of Bozeman.

Beautiful view of the mountains via I-90 E

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We arrived at Pierce RV Store in Billings, MT at 3 pm.  This is the place where we traded our 2013 Roadtrek camper van for this motorhome we called it Lil' Home.

We got propane fill-up, dumped black/grey tanks and got water tank filled up.  We talked to a service guy about a couple things that needed to be taken care of.  There was not any 

We did a bit of shopping to get stuff we needed for our LH.Talked to a tech about a couple things, he came over to the LH to see what needs to be done.  

They will look into it tomorrow afternoon.  Hopefully, they can finish it by closing time tomorrow.  We got site #5 with electric and water hook-up for free.  Unloaded the Jeep after parking the LH.  Went to Best Buy to look at radio/CD console.  Then to Pro Audiosound and got a quote.  Stopped by Costco to pick up few items.  Lots of food samples, so that helped whet our appetites a bit.  

Edith fixed pork chops and steamed cauliflowers.  Edith chatted with Erwin's niece, Christy via Facetime, the. erwin called his sister Lorraine and got the phone number for his other sister whom we plan to visit Wednesday, June 17th.

Erwin decided to turn in early around 10 pm.  Edith was still wide awake, chatted with friends on Facebook, edited the blog a bit.  

Miles driven:
LH - 193
Jeep - 38

Today's route:
A: Three Forks, MT
B: Bozeman, MT
C: Billings, MT