Laundry Day

Saturday was quiet day here for most of us. Son-in-law Dennis took some of the grandkids fishing for awhile. Angela and I put a stew in the crockpot for supper. We played some games and just hung out. We went to Mass Saturday night here in Hardin. Sunday our family from Bismarck packed up and headed home after we had lunch together so we are alone again. Monday was Janice's birthday and the day of the eclipse so we decided to stay here one more day for that. We watched the eclipse with a few of the other campers here by the laundry room and then we went out to lunch for her birthday at Pizza Hut. After lunch we drove down the the Yellowtail Dam and the Big Horn National Recreation Area.
On the south edge of Hardin we saw a train car parked with a sign on it so we stopped to check it out. According to this sign, it is one of two surviving cars of the Montana train that was sent to the New York World's Fair. We saw the other one last week in Wibaux, MT

Across the street from the train car was this interesting building.

Looking at the Yellowtail Dam from the parking lot.

The cliffs across the river from the visitor center.

The power plant at the bottom of the dam. Due to homeland security it is no longer possible for visitors to cross the dam of visit the power plant.

There is a second dam downstream from the big one to even out the flow on the river when the outflow from the main dam varies.

We took a 10 mile drive up and over the hills to get to the Ok-A-Beh marina above the dam.

On the way back we stopped to take this picture of the town of St Xavier for Xavier.

After this long day, we decided to stay one more night and not leave on Tuesday.  On Tuesday we got the laundry caught up and got everything ready to go the next day.