Batter Up! Cheering for the Missoula Osprey, Missoula MT
Take me out to the ball game; take me out to the crowd! Located immediately to the west of the Orange Street Bridge in Missoula is the town’s spectacular baseball diamond, Ogren Park at Allegiance Field. This home baseof the Missoula Osprey—our very own minor league baseball team—not only offers crowd pleasing fun and excitement for friends and family, but going to a ball game is the perfect excuse to get out with your special someone and share a date night under the big sky.
That’s exactly what my fiancé and I did for the opening night of the Missoula Osprey. Though we enjoy the regular dinner and movie nights, going to the game was a wonderful opportunity to do something a little different. Ticket prices can cost anywhere from $5-$10 per person depending on where you’d prefer to sit: the bleachers, stadium seating, or a grassy knoll of to the side.
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In my hometown of Bozeman, Montana, skiing is king. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise; we have a world-class resort just 45 miles down the road at Big Sky, as well as the local favorite, yet still impressive Bridger Bowl ski area. But lost in all the downhill excitement is the soothing experience of cross-country skiing. I’ve found that many residents are surprised to find that the city of Bozeman operates several cross-country trails within the city limits. 
The secrets of the west have attracted people to Montana throughout history. Some came by train; others traversed the rugged landscape by horseback or covered wagon. And what were they coming for? The big sky, the land, the mountains? How about gold, silver, even Sapphires? There is a place in western Montana where still today anxious prospectors are plunging there screens into a trough of cloudy water and sifting though gravel and earth in search of the ever prized sapphire. And guess what, not only are they finding the brilliant gems, but you can too. 
We took a trip in late May to Glacier National Park. I was pretty excited to see the glaciers since they’re melting and are on track to be completely gone by 2030, so I wanted to see them before they melted away. It was still pretty early in the season so there was a lot of snow in the mountains and over the trails to the glaciers. I figured since my boyfriend and I were not going to make the trek in the snow that we had to do something in order for me to achieve my wish to see the glaciers. So I broke out of my normal vacation mold of planning and budgeting everything and spontaneously told my boyfriend to pull into the Glacier Heli Tours. 
Two days into our Glacier trip my boyfriend and I found ourselves sitting at a beautiful bar called the Taproom attached to the Belton restaurant. We were chatting with the bartender when a couple walked up and asked her about the spa treatments available at the Belton Chalet. My boyfriend’s interest was immediate. If you were to meet him, you would not think he was the spa going type, even the bartender thought he was joking (maybe it was the camouflage jacket he was wearing, I don’t know). Once the couple made their reservation over the phone, they handed the phone over to my boyfriend who set up an appointment for both of us two days later. 
I love brewery tours, mostly because of the beer at the end of the tour. I’ve been on the Kokanee brewery tour so many times that the staff actually recognized my friend and I the last time we went. It was a little embarrassing to say the least. So on a recent trip to Glacier National Park my boyfriend and I were driving along highway 2, heading towards Kalispell and I saw a sign “brewery 1″. There was a little confusion about the sign between my boyfriend and I. 
Montana’s Highway 56 bridges Highway 200 and Highway 2 giving you some of the most beautiful scenic sights Montana has to offer. My boyfriend and I took this drive on our way home from a Glacier National Park trip. Even with awe-inspiring gorgeous sites of Glacier this drive was a great finish to our trip. We stopped for a quick picnic lunch at the rest stop on the corner of Hwy 2 and Hwy 56. Once we had finished our lunch we headed south on Hwy 56 with the mountains and trees surrounding the winding highway. 
I have always been fascinated by old cars, so on a vacation to Glacier National Park I decided that my boyfriend and I were going to take a tour on the Red Jammer, or the Red Bus as most people call them. The buses are called Red Jammers because they originally had manual transmissions and the drivers could be heard jamming the gears as they drove around the park. 
