Day 2 in Dakota!

The day ended with a last sweep through the park to see the Presidents lit up...made your patriotism surge. It was a fantastic trip...we all felt like we really got to know SW South Dakota...and we will be back! The kids were great...generally speaking....

In Rapid City we had dinner in a firehouse!!! Yah! Little Jer loved it and they both got hats!

The fantastic Reptile Center where we say like 150 different poisonous snakes and huge mammoth tortoises!

Through the kern fields...and boy were there some SERIOUS stickers!

Little House on the Praire moment.

The trip was a short weekend...7 hours up and back and the area around Mt. Rushmore was so spotted with tiny towns of particular interest....Here the kids danced in Hot Springs ....we spring! Also known for a large mammoth bone archeological site...we went and well....lets just say we were one of "those" familys...you know the ill-behaved vagabond children...the kind you don't want to claim as yours!!!

The expanse refreshed us all and the kids ran to there hearts delight and found buffalo and deer tracks and some real buffalo too!

This is 3 1/2 yrs....apparently the "moodyness" kicks in BIG time....my way or the highway attitudes....but the stance is histarical.

Oh good, she is over herself!

"RUN...FAST...watch Dad!"