A Visit to the Bozone

Do they still call it that? Bozone? Maybe not as the town shows many signs of gentrification. On the way back from Yellowstone Park we stopped in Bozeman to check out the Museum of the Rockies and have some lunch. Like all respectable fossils found in Montana this one has a name: he is called Big Mike. Though he looks fairly strong and their liability insurance is fairly good, the authorities request that you not climb on him.

We haven't been here for awhile. The exhibits, especially the dinosaur parts have greatly improved. Entertaining for kids of all ages.

The T. Rex to the right probably has a name but I've forgotten it. Though dead for a long time, it is still the real thing rather than a plaster model.

I like the way they illustrate the finding and digging out of these remains. Fascinating. Plus the scientific reasoning with the information at hand. If only our present day global warming freaks would do the same.

To be entirely truthful we were hungry when we arrived in Bozeman, so the first place we went to was the Hotel Baxter because they used to have a pretty good restaurant there. That is now just a bar or pub I think they call it and there is a new place across the lobby called Ted's Montana Grill. A little on the pricey side but very good food including some buffalo items that were certainly blogworthy. I had a bison meat loaf that was excellent. We had some good soup and our grandsons all enjoyed themselves on various burgers.

Check out their menu to the right.

And their website for more information. I just had a quick read. I didn't realize it was a chain. This is the 57th. Very good food anyway. And of course I didn't realize it had anything to do with Ted Turner. Mea culpa.

The Bozone on The Solemnity of the Assumption of the BVM

Northwest Legion Regional Baseball Tournament: The view from the grandstand at Heroes Park, Bozeman MT mid-August 2008. This was not the Scarlets' finest hours.

Altar at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Main St, Bozeman MT. The organ sounds good but aesthetically it visually overwhelms everything else. I remember when I was very young and sat upstairs in the balcony with my grandfather in the conservative Wisconsin synod Lutheran Church. The organ was next to the entrance door and I noticed people would stop and say a prayer immediately on entering. Of course, my first guess was that God was located within the organ. Good homily on the Assumption. Full house at mid-day.

Bridger Mountains in the background of Heroes Park, Bozeman MT. I wonder if a baseball stadium in Missoula MT could have been given this name?

A view down Main Street, Bozeman MT, one of the town's major assets. The Country Book Shelf is a fine independent book store about 3 doors down from where I took the picture. I was waiting for it to open its doors at 9am. They usually have signed versions of most recent books published by Montanans.

A view of the Montana Ale Works, a good place to eat and drink, right across from a really snazzy new public library, see below, on Main Street. Bozeman looks prosperous these days. They are building a large new parking garage just off Main St.

The Bozeman Public Library, recently opened on Main Street, Bozeman MT. When will Billings build a new library?

The view down the 90, heading east somewhere near Big Timber. This is the road the Scarlets beat a hasty retreat after losing a quick two games at the Northwest Regional. Ironic too because as I looked at the pairings before they started it crossed my mind that they might win it. Hmmm.