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
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
We had another tourist take this pic of us and the tower, but she got the foreground instead. Shucks.
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
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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
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.
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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!
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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.
(this is what he got at the mall candy/toy store in Rapid City)
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