Butte con't.---May 29,2010

We all slept in a little longer Saturday. Marvin and Dee went to do their laundry and we went driving around town. Last night while reading thru a small sightseeing newspaper I saw an ad for a place called Jail House Coffee. It is Butte's first jail and is now a coffee shop, but the interesting part of the ad was that they made Povitica(the spelling is different than we know it). It is a several layered nut bread that Bob and his Mom used to make and so we went in search of it. This stuff is very labor intensive and therefore rather expensive--one piece was $3.00 but this is a memory we are talking about. On Monday unless he changes his mind he is going to buy a whole loaf.

We noticed that down the street and in the street something was going on. It was a farmer's market so down we went. Not only home grown produce and plants but also home baked goods by a Mennonite family and other things. We ended up buying a necklace and earrings for me and a pair of small sapphire earring studs for our granddaughter, Samara. They come from a mine just up the road in Phillipsburg, Montana. Also one of the men's stores on the street was having a great sale and Bob found some things and he hates to shop but they were a great buy. Right as we were leaving it started to rain which it did several times during the day. We went back to get our friends and go to lunch at the Great Harvest Bread Co.--just a small coffee shop and cafe but excellent food.

Then we headed out to the Museum of Mining behind Montana Tech--nice campus. The whole town is built on hills and valleys-up and down. They had an indoor museum which included a display of minerals and stones and a huge doll house with all the trimmings room this one lady in town had made and collected over a lifetime. Then outside it literally was a replica of the mining town of Butte with all the businesses, a church(original) and a school. It is set around a mine entrance--no longer used of course with lots of items related to mining with explanations. The whole thing was very interesting. Tomorrow after church Bob and I are going back for the underground tour. I have never been in a mine. One of the young girls working in the museum was asked by "the boys" about good places to eat and she told them about this little place that sold "Pastys"(that is pronounced with a small sounding A). It is a half moon shaped pie dough that is stuffed with very small cuts of steak, potatoes, onions and Bob's Mon put in carrots and then baked. Another memory so off we went to find "Joe's Pasty Shop" and right across from that little store stood a Greek restaurant so Bob went over to get some dessert--Baklava--another memory. Last night he said thank you for your bad eye because other wise we would not have stayed this long and found all these good memories. At least something positive came out of this infection. We also searched out a Baptist church for Marvin and Dee. We normally go with them, but another memory. There were Serbians here mining the mines years ago and so there is enough of a population that they have a church; therefore, we are going there on Sunday. Haven't been in a Serbian Church with its liturgy and icons and incense since I was pregnant with Jeremy and I had to get up and leave because the smell of the incense was making me sick. After church we will meet back up with Marvin and Dee and eat lunch somewhere and at 3pm take our underground tour. Don't know what else we may do. Normally it is a rest day for both coaches, but we will see. Signing off.