Page 13 - FF USA Exchange Diary September 2016

STOP PRESS – Margaret was the only ambassador who saw Grizzly Bears in the park

DATE: Saturday 23 July FROM: Florece Keen Rowland, Friendship Force Oklahoma A Day in Whitefish

Florece’s hosts Joann and Bob Sleadd are a very interesting couple. Bob is retired from the San Francisco Police
Dept. as a crime scene photographer. He instituted the way to take colored pictures for crime scenes instead of
just black and white. Joann is an artist, and some of us viewed her paintings in Big Fork. Bob takes pictures for
Joann to paint, which makes for a good combination of husband and wife. All our hosts actually had very different
backgrounds and stories to tell, their hospitality has been amazing.
Pricilla day hosted and picked up Florece to ride the Gondola to the top of White Fish Mt. Resort. Some hosts and
our ambassadors rode to the 6,000 ft. summit, looking out over the White Fish Mountain. The small museum had
pelts of different furs and examples of different animals found in this area.

We took some lovely photographs of the Alpine slide though none of us went down this way. The walk with the
museum guide was fun and educational as she named the alpine wild flowers. Some of us had lunch at the White
Fish Lodge, others at a Mexican Restaurant. Many went into the town of White Fish and did a little shopping.

Quite a few of us went to the Sculpture Center of the well-known Artist and Sculptor Sunti from Thailand. He has
so much talent and his work is unbelievable. The ‘Legends of the Americas Collection’ with sculptures of Chief
Joseph, Crazy Horse, Chief Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Chief Little Horse, Chief Crowfoot and more, were amazing, as
was a full size Buddhist Monk.

A variety of dinners and events concluded the day as well as just plain relaxing. Some energetic people went
dancing at the “Eagle”. We all had another good day and evening.