So Dak: Day 4

On Saturday we were greeted by a goat as we entered the Badlands Loop.

It was just beautiful. I think the vastness can be compared to the Grand Canyon, just a thought since I've yet to see the canyon.

Here's Ashly in her bright new Sturgis shirt!

Me and my wonderful husband!!!!

This is only a small snippet of time when he was quietly sleeping. Most of the trip was too hot and too much off normal routine which caused lots of melt downs and whining. I don't blame him for acting that way because he just doesn't understand yet, but let's just say we only made it through because there was three of us against one!

Beautiful!

There were a couple tee pees by the visitor center.

Here we are in 1880s Town. I was pretty excited to see this place and thought it would be a great stop to break up the trip homeward. It turns out that it was so hot that Christopher didn't want to run around, he wanted to be held. Chadd is the only one out of us three that can successfully carrying him around for any length of time now that he is so big! We ended up cutting this part of the trip short.

Here's props from the movie "Dances with Wolves"

The town was neat and there was even carriage rides. It was too bad we couldn't get the full experience.

This is shelves at the "store"

Jail cell

Post Office

This is our official last stop before spending the night in Sioux Falls and heading home on Sunday. This is the inside of the corn palace in Mitchell, SD.

Outside of the corn palace. I thought the outside was really spectacular, but I thought there would be more to see inside.

Chadd was eating his licorice pipe. He remembered eating these as a kid.

Ashly is eating her caramel corn on the cob from the corn palace.

Ok...here it is....presenting Chadd's South Dakota souvenirs. And I'm the nice wife that let him have them!!!! These are steer horns we now have above our front door. He really fell in love with Texas Longhorns, but they were just too long to fit in the car so he had to settle on these.

And...a buffalo head skull thing. What can I say? Chadd loves it!