Labor Day @ White Sulfur Springs

We spent most of Labor Day about 2 hours south (& a little east) of Great Falls in a little town called White Sulfur Springs - population 950.

We saw a cool cemetery with lots of birth & death dates in the 1800's - it was pretty neat!

Then we watched the awesome parade that went up Main Street and then turned around and came back.

Playing tag while waiting for the parade to make another pass:

Oh yeah, and this crazy tiny baby girlie started walking this weekend!

(She has a pack of smarties in her mouth - I guess she needed both hands for balance! Haha!)

As the flag went by:

The kids made out like bandits with tons of candy! (It's now in a jar hidden on the top shelf of the pantry...I'm letting them pick one a day, haha!)

Then we had lunch at the Branding Iron Cafe, it was pretty delicious, but definitely a bit of a dive!

After lunch we took a tour of a castle overlooking the city (actually a Victorian Era house with some castle-type architectural features) built by a rich family in the late 1800's. They didn't allow pictures to be taken inside, but we got a nice one outside:

We had planned on going to the rodeo next, but everyone was pretty beat, so we headed towards home and stopped at Belt Creek where some of our church friends had met up to enjoy some end-of-summer swimming. I didn't get any pictures of that though, we were in the water the whole time and it was too wet!