Thursday, April 12, 2012

SPRING BREAK, yo!

We made it out of the driveway before 7am! Yay us!

Ready to go!

Psycho pic of me and Devil's Tower


Heidi and the DT




Addie and the DT




James at the DT ranger station





Kids & Devils Tower






Heidi, James & Addie at the foot of DT






The Legend of how DT was created







Zoomed-in: Climbers on the tower





The girls and me watching the climbers











We had another tourist take this pic of us and the tower, but she got the foreground instead. Shucks.






Kids in Rocks
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We got to Rapid City at 5pm and hurried to play in the water park and slept soundly at our hotel. The next morning we set out for adventure...



On Thursday Morning we went to Mount Rushmore. This is how it looks from the "entrance."



We found Arizona in The Hall of Flags




Kids at the entrance




Me & kids at the hall of flags





The kids found Montana at the hall of flags





Thar she blows...Mt. Rushmore in all its glory!





Heidi with the Presidents





James with the Presidents




Niles looking out the window of the visitor center





Niles and the Presidents


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After earning our Junior Ranger badges at Mt. Rushmore, we went back into Rapid City, had some Taco Bell lunch, and checked out the dinosaur park.








James & the TRex




Kids with Stegosaurus




Kids with the crumbling Brontosaurus



TRex again



Triceratops




Maiasaurus


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After Dino Park, we had froyo and went back to the hotel for swimming at the waterpark. We had pizza and culvers frozen custard for dinner.


Addie & Heidi on the "toilet bowl" slide


weeee!


The waterpark from the top of a slide



Addie on the slide that runs through the bar & grill


Splash Pad



The waterpark as it looked from the hotel entrance


Heidi on the bar & grill slide.


We took this pic for my brother Willy

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On Friday we went to the mall in Rapid City to look around and get Heidi's ears pierced for her birthday.

Niles in his stroller

Heidi getting her ears pierced.

Nervous


Ta-Dah! Pierced Ears!


We tried BACON SODA from the fun candy store there.


We couldn't agree on a place for lunch, so we went to Golden Corral where everyone could get something they wanted. Like ice cream and chocolate dipped strawberries.

Silly Niles at lunch


Even sillier Heidi


We promised the kids they could try something they've never eaten before and they all wanted to go to Lobsterfest and eat lobster, so we did...

Concensus: meh. But we had a FUN time together!

Heidi & James in the playland at Rushmore Mall

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Saturday morning we headed home to Montana. I stopped for a potty break, when what to my wondering eyes should appear...

We could see Devils Tower from I-90 (we hadn't noticed before).


Addie laid by Niles & entertained him.

Heidi and James in the back seat.


The minute we got home, James wanted to excavate his dinosaur skull

(this is what he got at the mall candy/toy store in Rapid City)



My little paleontologist found a triceratops skull which is proudly mounted on our piano now ;)
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As we drove into town, we got a message that Addie won the Easter coloring contest at Albertson's, so we stopped there and she picked up her prize--a giant, fluffy bunny! We are so proud of her!

SO--that was our spring break. We unpacked and changed gears right into EASTER.

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