{"id":620,"date":"2016-08-28T04:35:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T04:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/?p=620"},"modified":"2017-06-26T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T15:11:23","slug":"a-day-of-rest-in-anaconda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montybillpct.net\/blog2016\/2016\/08\/28\/a-day-of-rest-in-anaconda\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, August 28 A Day of Rest in Anaconda"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUMMARY:\u00a0 <\/strong>Seems that in Anaconda, everything shuts down on Sunday. The “Coffee Corral” across the street, which we planned on for breakfast, was closed. We were standing in front of it, quite dismayed, when along came 3 CDT hikers, walking briskly.<\/p>\n

“Hey!” we yelled. “Anyplace in this town where we can get breakfast?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, the Early Bird Special\u2014down the street, $3.95.”<\/p>\n

So off we went for a few more blocks, and yahoo, the “Classic Cafe” was open and we all ordered the Early Bird. Lots to talk about with the trail ahead and Canada closer. But when we mentioned we were headed for church, up came the excellent question. “Why? What’s the deal with all the different churches?”<\/p>\n

Very good discussion with 3 of the hikers\u2014but one guy pretty much blew it off. We did go to church at an Assemblies of God\u2014really enjoyed it. So good to be with believers.<\/p>\n

DETAILS:\u00a0 <\/strong>Wow, a sleep-in day!\u00a0 And my feet have finally stopped hurting.\u00a0 We didn’t get up till 7:30 am, and we feel like we are just turning into jello.\u00a0 But breakfast was calling, and we NEED it!\u00a0 Both Fixit and I are horribly thin.\u00a0 Even on the PCT toward the end of the hike, I was never this thin.<\/p>\n

But when we went to the Coffee Corral just down the street, planning on eating everything in sight, oh no!\u00a0 It was closed.\u00a0 And so was everything else.\u00a0 The whole main street was deserted.\u00a0 Looks like Anaconda just plain shuts down on Sundays.\u00a0 We were standing there in dismay when we spotted a cheerful group of CDT hikers walking along the other side of the street.\u00a0 “Hey!” we shouted.\u00a0 “Where can we get breakfast around here?”\u00a0 They all grinned and pointed down the street.\u00a0 “The Early Bird Breakfast, only $3.95, at the cafe!”<\/p>\n

So six of us walked into the cafe and got a table together, and we all ordered basically the same thing.\u00a0 Two of the hikers (Popeye and his girlfriend Olive Oyl) are headed out today, but the rest of us are staying on.\u00a0 There was a lot of fun talk, but eventually Fixit and I mentioned that we were headed for church this morning and that naturally led to the questions of “Why?” and “How come there are so many different churches–why can’t they agree?”\u00a0 We had a great time answering the questions.\u00a0 Three of the hikers were very interested, but one guy totally blew us off.<\/p>\n

We headed for the Assembly of God church, and along the way we met a guy carrying a rifle.\u00a0 Not sure why he was doing that, but one thing we have noticed in Montana is that a lot of people are openly “packin’ heat.”\u00a0 They are very proud of it, too.\u00a0 “There’s no crime here!” they say.\u00a0 “No crook would dare try anything.\u00a0 And those mass shooter guys wouldn’t last 2 seconds.”\u00a0\u00a0 Very true!<\/p>\n

We found the church and joined in with the adult Sunday School class (Good for them that they have one!\u00a0 A lot of churches don’t do SS for adults anymore!)\u00a0 Turned out that they were going through an intriguing book called “Believe” where the writer interviewed a lot of different pastors and Christian leaders with the question, “What are the basics that all Christians agree on?”\u00a0 (Hmm, an interesting corollary to the CDT hikers’ question about “Why can’t the churches agree on anything?”)<\/p>\n

The church service was great, the sermon on Psalm 60, with the point of “How do you respond when you lose\/everything goes wrong?”\u00a0 But an amusing highlight for Fixit and I was the announcements.\u00a0 The pastor said, “Next Saturday is the Men’s Breakfast, and ladies, by popular request, we’ve booked time for you at the shooting range while the men are having their meeting.”\u00a0 Then he looked at Fixit and I and said, “I bet you don’t get announcements like that in your church in California!”\u00a0 We just laughed and said, “Yeah, no way!”\u00a0 The folks in the church were very friendly and asked us to let them know when we make it to Canada.<\/p>\n

For “lunch” we went and got ice cream, then finished up the pasta we had left over from dinner yesterday.\u00a0 Then we just lay down.\u00a0 We tried to call a friend, but the cell phone didn’t connect.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 After awhile we went for a walk to see the Art Deco theatre and to just look around a bit, before going to Dairy Queen for dinner.\u00a0 Along the way we saw deer grazing in people’s front yards.\u00a0 Smart deer!\u00a0 No hunters here in town…or maybe not so smart?\u00a0 It would be really easy to quietly “bag” one of those “town deer.”<\/p>\n

Then it was early to bed.\u00a0 I had been sort of frustrated by the fact that we were “trapped” into having to take an unplanned zero here, but now I realize that we desperately needed the rest.\u00a0 Now that I am not hiking, I realize how tired I really am.\u00a0 So we are grateful to the Lord for stopping us here in Anaconda!\u00a0 Back to the trail tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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