From Wyoming to South Dakota: FINALLY IN SOUTH DAKOTA!!!
The day started out pretty much like the first day except that we got a much earlier start.
I was awoken at 7:30 to get ready to eat breakfast at the hotel which ended at 9:00. The process of having four people get ready at the one sink in our hotel room was a challenge. Even though Blake and my Dad didn’t hardly use it the challenge came with there being only one outlet for me and my mom. This one particular outlet had held my phone and camera charger the night before and then needed to be equipped with a blow dryer and curling iron that morning. All of us girls know the somewhat necessary bag of makeup that we usually decide to bring on all vacations besides girls camp. Those two makeup bags took up the whole sink. My brother could hardly get through the mess to brush his teeth.
Breakfast was good. Usually I’m not a breakfast fan because it makes me sick that early in the morning but who could pass up donuts, hot chocolate, orange juice and fruitloops!?!? (I know, so healthy)
After breakfast we went out to load the car. Since it had been dark the night before we were oblivious to how bad our car had been attacked by bugs from the long trip the day before
As we left the hotel parking lot and were going to fill up with gas, we got a nice little surprise by nature. There, out in the field was a mother antelope and her two baby fawns. It was so cute!!!
The next spot on our trip was walmart. I know, I just can’t seem to stay away from that place. Blake and I had some fun messing around on our way and in the store.
Blake still wasn’t too happy about driving around in the middle of nowhere.
Yah we have a great time just messing around. I took Blakes hat. I think I look pretty good in it :) .
After Walmart we were finally on our way and we came across all these antique cars that were driving from New York to Seatle Washington. It was pretty cool so I tried to get some pictures of them
Since the Cars were much more interesting from the side, I gave my camera to Blake so he could get a picture of them. These are his attempts….
Second attempt: still no dice
So my mom decides she can do a better job and
tries her luck with the camera… she told my dad to slow down which Blake says was cheating because he had to try and take it at 60 MPH
Needless to say, she didn't have very good luck either...
So me, thinking that it’s my camera and I know how to work it . I say, “give me my own dang camera. I’ll do it.” My Dad even pulls off to the side of the road and stops. This is the picture I managed…
Yes, the picture I took wasn’t much better… So no such luck with the old antique cars…
We then went to a mammoth dig site. It was really interesting. apparently a bunch of mammoths got stuck in a hot spring and couldn't get out over hundreds of years and so they died from either drowning, exhaustion, or starvation. So when they were trying to build a housing development they found the bones, donated the land and now it's a huge tourist spot. It was really quite interesting.
these are some pictures of the excavation site.
yah it was really cool. we also went to wind caves which was really nifty. None of the pictures i took worked out but i did take a video of the natural enterence to the cave. they call it wind caves because depending on the berometric pressure wind either blows into or out of the cave.
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