On our way back to the KOA last night, we noticed a viewing area of George Washington's profile, so we made sure to stop there this morning to take a picture or two for you.
Washington is one of the best leaders to ever live. God blessed America by sending him here at the right time!
When first talking about taking this trip, Fe' Steadman (and her children) said we for sure had to stop at Wall Drug in Wall, SD! Free ice water.
Tons of highway signs...stretching back to the edge of Wyoming. This was the most meager of their signs:
So we stopped there for lunch, entertainment and souvenir shopping. (Only trouble was that we spent almost 3 hours there.)
It is amazing that Roderic wanted to climb up onto the 6 foot tall jackalope for his picture to be taken. (He's petrified of heights.)
Right outside of Wall is the entrance to Badlands National Park loop. What amazing scenery! Totally worth the loop trip and small delays!
At the end of the loop is a visitors center for the Minutemen Missle National Historic Site. We stopped and heard a short spiel, but too bad we didn't have time to go visit Delta-9--it was already closing for the day.
We got to the Jellystone Campground in Sioux Falls just as they were closing for the night. It was right next to 2 fireworks factory stores, which put on quite a patriotic display. They seemed to burn up anything they hadn't sold. And they had many that where we come from, only city governments are allowed to purchase. And on the other side of the freeway there were several groups launching fireworks from the dirt road next to the field of corn. They were shooting them off while we setup our camp and cooked and ate our dinner. We got out our small speaker system and Sabrina had a MoTab rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever on her MP3, and it was just awesome! After just a little while, Hyrum said "I'm done with fireworks. When are they going to stop doing them?" And then he kept repeating that, feeling a little worse off each time. Well, it was a long while later, and he had to sit on Dad's lap from then on to not be freaked out.
After the kids and Malauna were asleep, Ryan checked the weather on his Droid. (Storm clouds had been gathering all day, especially back by the badlands...but it was starry when we were setting up camp.) And he was startled to see that the biggest storm system presently in the nation was bearing down on us. Or so it appeared. He went out and put up all of the guy lines, and was sure that the storm would hit within an hour. But it didn't. The high pressure around Sioux Falls and Omaha seemed to push the storm system to the North, mostly. There ended up being just a little rain. That looked unimaginable from the radar image seen at the time. We felt quite blessed.
It is amazing that Roderic wanted to climb up onto the 6 foot tall jackalope for his picture to be taken. (He's petrified of heights.)
We got to the Jellystone Campground in Sioux Falls just as they were closing for the night. It was right next to 2 fireworks factory stores, which put on quite a patriotic display. They seemed to burn up anything they hadn't sold. And they had many that where we come from, only city governments are allowed to purchase. And on the other side of the freeway there were several groups launching fireworks from the dirt road next to the field of corn. They were shooting them off while we setup our camp and cooked and ate our dinner. We got out our small speaker system and Sabrina had a MoTab rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever on her MP3, and it was just awesome! After just a little while, Hyrum said "I'm done with fireworks. When are they going to stop doing them?" And then he kept repeating that, feeling a little worse off each time. Well, it was a long while later, and he had to sit on Dad's lap from then on to not be freaked out.
After the kids and Malauna were asleep, Ryan checked the weather on his Droid. (Storm clouds had been gathering all day, especially back by the badlands...but it was starry when we were setting up camp.) And he was startled to see that the biggest storm system presently in the nation was bearing down on us. Or so it appeared. He went out and put up all of the guy lines, and was sure that the storm would hit within an hour. But it didn't. The high pressure around Sioux Falls and Omaha seemed to push the storm system to the North, mostly. There ended up being just a little rain. That looked unimaginable from the radar image seen at the time. We felt quite blessed.
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