Well of course we went to...Mt. Rushmore! (with a Sturgis dude next to us). love it.
So this is a run down of our trip. We drove to Rapid City, SD. Crossed through the Badlands and drove and drove. Wade is a great, enthusuastic driver! Love him! (actually Wyoming was LONGER drive and I got to do a lot of it too).
We went to the OTHER face on the Mountain monument: Crazy Horse. This is what it WILL look like when completed.
This is what it looks like now...see the face and the hole for where the arm will be. Yeah, its a long process carving this guy and his horse in the mountain....because they won't use government funding to do so. It is all based on donations and people coming to visit the place. Crazy....horse..?
We REALLY liked how we saw THOUSANDS (literally) of motorcycles while we were there. Yup, we like that crowd, accidentally picked STURGIS week to go on our vacation to Rapid City. It was actually pretty cool seeing all the motorcycles. Pretty sure Wade wants a motorcycle now....but I kinda want one too. (to ride on the back of course, but I'm not sure I can look as tough as those chicks we saw riding on the backs...I can try). But seriously, the lady at the hotel said they average 500,000 bikers ride through during this week. That's a lot of leather!
We went to a cute little park in Rapid City called Story Book park. It had all these cool toys with giant replica's from stories (you name it, they had it...even three men in a tub? I don't remember that story growing up) Autumn loved them all...she wanted us to take her picture on everything, I made Wade sit on the Monkey swing with Autumn. What a trooper!
Then we made our way to North Salt Lake. Drove ALL day across Wyoming, dang that's a wide state. We played with my neices: Harley, Mylie and Quinn all week. Then my mom and dad and Noah came and we had a blast. The day after we got there was Quinn's 1st birthday! She was so cute. Wade and her had fun chatting!
We went to Lagoon (regretfully, these are the only pics...) it was the 2nd ride and it was the Kiddie version of the Re-Entry or as it is called Egg drop. It's where they take you up and then drop you like you are free falling. Well, the kids wanted to go on it, so I got in line. Wade wouldn't go with us. this is me trying to telling him to "get over here...Now (with the pointer finger). Didn't work. So I stepped out and watched with Wade. Good thing because it was by far the funniest ride to watch the screaming, bawling child that freaked out when the ride "dropped". Oh wait....that was OUR screaming, bawling child. Yup our 9 year old freaked out. We tried not to laugh but it was so dang funny. Mylie who is 5 was looking at Autumn like "what is wrong with you?" not scared at all.
Then to the Hogle Zoo. They are all Tigers? or something...then with the Giraffe. Then Quinn enjoying an ice cream cone! She's got this thing figured out!
Then before we left, I took Wade to Crown Burger in SLC. You see, I love watching food channels. And we enjoy Man Vs. Food on the Travel Channel. Well this was on one day in ND and I told myself I am going to eat at this place when I go...and I did! He made it look so good on TV. It was a Pastrami Cheeseburger. Pretty good, but Wade didn't think it blew his socks off. I was just excited to go where the Man Vs. Food guy went. :)
Then we went to Idaho Falls. While we were there, we of course had to stop and check out Wade's handy log work at the Famous Dave's. Look at those logs he coped! Nice!!
Sweet little Kallie Rae's blessing was on Sunday. It was wonderful, I think someboday said there were 17 guys in the circle. How blessed that little girl is to have so many priesthood holders hold HER in their arms! It was fun to see the Hanson Family too!
We also got to visit my Grandma Donna's grave in Shelley, man do I miss her bad! She was one AMAZING woman! My mom and dad pulled in right after we had left, so I didn't get a picture but they did! Love these two parents!
Then I cried driving back to ND thinking how much I love our Families! What a good vacation. Much needed and loved! See you all at Christmas guys!
