{"id":6296,"date":"2012-06-08T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:56","slug":"trip-update-from-bozeman-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6296","title":{"rendered":"Trip Update from Bozeman, Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We spent the week with my brother Ryan and his wife Suzan and their sons, Jonathan and Spencer.\u00a0 What a fantastic week it was, too.\u00a0 I am too tired to post any pictures at the moment, but I will when I get the chance.\u00a0 The week there was better than we could have asked for.\u00a0 Such beautiful surroundings and such generous hospitality!\u00a0 Melissa and I had the chance to share about Haiti at Ryan&#8217;s church last night at the Wednesday night prayer service and then Ryan treated us all to a treat at Dairy Queen. This morning we hit the road to wind our way back to Indiana over the course of the next ten days or so.\u00a0 Our first stop is here in Bozeman &#8211; which puts us about an hour and a half outside of Yellowstone Park.\u00a0 It was a gorgeous drive today, making the time pass quickly considering the number of miles we covered.\u00a0  When we pulled away from Ryan&#8217;s house this morning, we didn&#8217;t get ten minutes down the road before The Princess (age 5) blurted out, &#8220;I miss Uncle Ryan!&#8221; The next thing I know, she and Dats (age 11) were both literally in tears.\u00a0 It was so sweet.\u00a0  But like the old Bill Cosby routine about grandparents, I wanted to tell them, &#8220;This is not the same guy I shared a room with while we were growing up &#8211; this is an old guy trying to get into heaven.&#8221;\u00a0 Just kidding, Ryan!\u00a0 You and Suzan were fantastic to us all and we love you guys.\u00a0 We&#8217;re so glad we finally took the opportunity to visit you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the week with my brother Ryan and his wife Suzan and their sons, Jonathan and Spencer.\u00a0 What a fantastic week it was, too.\u00a0 I am too tired to post any pictures at the moment, but I will when I get the chance.\u00a0 The week there was better than we could have asked for.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}