Going on Vacation
I’m heading out with my girls on vacation this weekend an into next next week. This will be our “big” vacation of the summer and it’s based around my wife’s family’s reunion, July 12th.
In order to get some sightseeing out of a trip to visit a bunch people the kids & I don’t know, we’re renting a car and taking the long way back to Wisconsin. We’re heading up through Wyoming and the Dakotas so we can see Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands, etc. We’ll get back to Wisconsin mid-week next week and spend a little time with my family, then complete the trek to Green Bay and on to the reunion in Wisconsin Dells (which is pretty much underwater). The reunion is my wife’s dad’s family. Good people, so it should be fun. We hop a plane back to Denver the day after the reunion.
When I was about 11, I took a similar trip through the Dakotas and up to Yellowstone Park with two of my cousins and my grandparents. We camped all the way and it was a blast. I don’t remember all the tourist sites though and my wife has never been there, so if you have any suggestions of things we should see on the trip, or want to mow my lawn, let me know.
Have a great Independence Day!
July 1st, 2008 at 9:26 am
We just got back from the Mt Rushmore area on vacation.
Mt Rushmore is a must see but it won’t take too much time. You’ll want to go through the Crazy Horse site. They’ve really expanded the grounds and there is a lot to see along with a 20 minute video. Plan for a couple of hours there. Also, in Hot Springs, SD, you’ll want to do Evans Plunge — the hot springs pool there with a couple of different slides. The largest pool is inside. And there’s a Mammoth site which is an archeological dig site of a sink hole — way cool! They are excavating it layer by layer and leaving the bones as they find them.
And a very fluky - very fun and weird experience — is Cosmos. It’s a place where energy fields align and balls roll up hill and other bizarre things (you can google it). My husband had an inner ear problem that day — was not the best place to go through — but your girls will love it. It takes about 20 minutes to go through the walk. We laughed so hard. It was a nice break.
There’s a ton of stuff to do up there. They’ve done a great job mixing up stuff to learn with stuff to do. Enjoy your trip!!!
Melissa
July 1st, 2008 at 9:31 am
while you’re going to Mt Rushmore…head over to Crazy Horse…it’s another amazing monument with a lot of history behind it. I was there when I was 12 and I loved it…and would love to go back and see the progress. Google it, it’s not complete yet…