Iron Mountain Road

Talk about carsick!!! Iron Mountain Road is really really awesome but not one to go on if you get carsick! It took all night for me to recover. It was awful. But the views were amazing! Beautiful! I can't decide which to talk about. Us girls were all soooo sick but the tunnels were a lot of fun! 

This one was 8'wide, I could reach out and touch the walls! 

Wall Drug

We drove over to Wall Drug for the free ice water and homemade donuts. No, the donuts aren't free, they cost enough for a regular donut and a gallon of ice water combined! But I guess it's the adventure that counts right? 

I was kind of excited about getting a picture of the girls in the 6' jackalope.

Reptile Gardens

I remember going here when I was a kid so I was excited when we decided to make this one of our stops. I was determined to make the girls eat alligator meat since I've regretted not doing it basically my whole life... unfortunately I couldn't find any. They were very relieved! 

Maycie insisted on being pushed in a stroller but we all gave up pushing her after the first show because it was too hard to manoeuvre. 

We saw the gator show first then the birds then part of the snake show (GROSS!) last. 

We even got to pet a baby alligator! 

The girls panned for gems.  

They compared their wing span. 

The tortoises were a huge hit! We could have stayed right here for hours watching them eat grass but (luckily) there was a show we had to get to. 

After the snake show the girls were able to pet a baby python. YUCK! Have I ever mentioned how much I really, really don't like snakes?!

Mount Rushmore

This is my favorite pixie of the whole trip! I love how cute these two are! 

Maycie loved using her binoculars for everything from watching the movie to studying the maps. Best money we spent! The girls both filled out their ranger booklets and earned their badges. 

Sturgis

Look at these two characters we picked up!

Girls trip to Bismarck

Did these pictures post already?

These are the pictures from the day trip we took to Bismarck a while back. We went to a fun museum and park called Eagles Landing but it was raining so we didn't stay long at the park. 

Public works open house

Good thing about having your dad work for the city...you get to do all the cool things like climb in equipment, honk horns, play in wheels, look at poop-eating microorganisms in a microscope. You know, the cool stuff.