It started off driving in the car…long, dreadful hours. But after two days, the adventure started! We drove out to the Badlands and climbed up tall, steep, muddy rocks…and fell back down them. We went out to the corn palace, which to our surprise, was not COMPLETELY made of corn. But we saw a normal building covered with some amazing pictures made with different colored corn. WALL DRUG: a series of stores that reminded us of Tennessee. Every time we turned around there was some one wearing a cowboy hat, or a stand of cowboy hats. They had the best homemade ice cream of ALL time. We got to our campsite around…9:30ish. We were exhausted from our first day of actually doing something. Setting up a tent in the dark is NOT EASY, but luckily it was not a complete failure. We finally ate dinner at 10:30, chatted a little, and crashed at 11:15. We got to “sleep in”, which here means, until around 7:30-8:00, because the sun, unfortunately, escaped into our tents, and the guys are not the quietest people. We took a little hike and before we knew it, we were writing our first blog!
Love and miss you all,
Emily and Rachel
June 30, 2009
Custer State Park, South Dakota
Love and miss you all,
Emily and Rachel
June 30, 2009
Custer State Park, South Dakota
photo: the girls and Doug at an overlook at The Badlands National Park
Rachel, So glad to see your updates. Why is it called the Badlands? I am waiting for more sites to see. Love and miss you, Mom
ReplyDeleteHey momma. I already told you why over the phone!!! Horse back riding in yellowstone insead. Went to see the crazy horse monument today. laundrey is hard. ill call you when i can. love you!! -Rachel
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