1880 TOWN

cool actual 1880 town...original buildings brought in to make town
1880 Town #2

Display of original props from movie Dances With Wolves
Movie filmed in surrounding area in Badlands and Black Hills
They had a 50's Diner in a train!
Prairies

As far as you can see!!!
Sitka ❤

Badlands -- AMAZING!!

How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; Psalm 104:24
Badlands #2

Pictures do not show how simply amazing this is in person!
Wall, SD

Another State Sticker..South Dakota

Our home for the next week
Started off great today..can't wait to see what's in store for the rest of the week!!!
Mt. Rushmore - - breathtaking!

Another thing to check off our bucket list!
Another thing we never thought we would see.. And can't believe we are here..it brought tears to my eyes to see this magnificent sculpture!
Mt. Rushmore #2

Black Hills - Crazy Horse

Needles Highway - Awesome!

"He has made everything beautiful in its time"Ecc. 3:11
Home on the Plains

We went on a drive through Custer State Park this evening in hopes to see buffalo.
Boy....did we see buffalo! Hundreds of them feeding right by road. We had to wait about 2o minutes for them move soLeggi altro
Wildlife in Custer Park

We also got to see a field of prairie dogs, pronghorns and deer. The land was endless!
Custer State Park is 71,000 acres and has 1300 head of buffalo!
Mt Rushmore at night

What a way to end the most absolute amazing day!
Picture not great, but lighting of Mt Rushmore was awesome!!
Praise and glory to God..words can not express all we have seen today!
Hiking in Badlands

Badlands National Park is 244,000 acres!
We hiked down into Badlands on Door Trail. Very cool to be right in among the various rock formations.
Relaxing

Nice evening to sit around the campfire!
More bones

Land, land and more land!

This reminded me of Little House on the Prairie...neighbors miles away and land as far as you can see!
The Mammoth Site

This is an active excavating site
The mammoths died in a sink hole
First bones found in 1974 when digging for a housing project. In third picture you can see red ball hanging from ceiling...that isLeggi altro
Wind Cave & Jewell Cave National Parks

We stopped at each park, walked a little, then drove through (cave tours were already booked up!)
They had wildfire in September 2017 burning 1500 acres.
Custer State Park has wildfire in DecemberLeggi altro
Flowers at Jewell Cave Park

Then we had to stop for ice cream on way home! 🍦
Weather ⛈

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Psalm 19:1
Bad storm rolled through this evening but then we were treated with an amazing double rainbow!
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Yee Haw Rodeo Time !

We got to go to the 99th Black Hills Roundup Rodeo
It was a lot of fun...team competitions in 5 events :
Branding, sorting, wild cow milking ( one of the cows got injured and had to be carted off),Leggi altro
Rodeo #2
