South Dakota (with a little bit of Wyoming first)

  We clipped the corner of Wyoming and then made it to South Dakota!  I felt like we did so many things in South Dakota, but there are still so many South Dakota things we didn't do!

We were there the Thursday before the Sturgis rally (a HUGE motorcycle rally), so there were motorcycles EVERYWHERE!

We drove through Deadwood and the amount of motorcycles there was staggering.

Then we went to Mount Rushmore!

And worked on Junior Ranger badges

And saw the museum.

We went to the prairie on top of the Wind Cave.  We didn't get tickets in to the Wind Cave, but it was fun to see the bison and the prairie dogs.  The museum was interesting, too.

We stopped at Wall Drug for the first time in my life.

This dinosaur roars every 15 minutes.  It was slightly traumatizing to a couple kids.

We stopped at a park at the edge of the Missouri River.  Mostly because Silvey's hood had started to flap ever so slightly.  It was pretty fun, and crazy hot!

We also stopped a couple blocks from the corn palace, but didn't see it.  Instead we put in a bolt so Silvey's hood wasn't only held on on one side anymore.  Quality time hanging out outside Menard's, that's for sure.