Pictures of our Babymoon

It’s almost been a month since our trip to South Dakota. I suppose I should post some pics. Since I’m also lazy (and find the upload feature in this blog engine a little cumbersome), I posted them all at the Wurtzberger domain using a photo tool.

Check ‘em out!

I suppose I could describe our trip!

We started off driving to New Ulm, back to the farm, to drop off Normie. Thought he could use some exercise for a few days. I don’t think he was much of a problem for my folks. There was the cat incident, however… We started off on a Saturday morning, making it through all the way to Rapid City by Saturday night. We even made it through the Badlands with a short stop at the prairie dog farm after a horrible lunch at the Cactus Cafe (I ordered a turkey commercial, I think it was ham…). We managed to get a hotel as well.

Next morning was a little chilly as we started off. We must have hit every touristy thing you could think of in Rapid City. First stop: Reptile Gardens. I loved it. Pretty fun!!! Piglet (nickname for our baby for now) approved! I believe our next stop was Bear Country, USA. Then we headed for the scenic route, which included FEE (not FREE, as we thought) parking! Next was a scenic drive on 14A – I can’t come up with the name right now, but it had lots of “pigtail” switchbacks. That was awesome! Better views of Rushmore from here! After a visit with some friendly donkeys, who we feed prairie dog “approved” food to (um, yeah, just bring some unsalted peanuts and you’re fine…), we hit the needles highway (Custer?). Our journey ended in Deadwood where we stayed at “Cadillac Jack’s” for the night. Had a nice dinner, stayed in a nice (and cheapest) room on the trip.

We hit up the Franklin the next morning to try our luck… lost some quick money at the Blackjack table, but made most of it back playing a Star Wars machine!!! Sweet! When in Deadwood, you must visit the grave of “Wild Bill” and “Calamity Jane”! That was about the cheapest thing we did ($1). Breakfast was lovely – garlic toast for breakfast, anyone?

We swung by a trout fishery in Silver Bay (?) and then started heading West – Devil’s Tower! That think was pretty sweet! Poor B had some tired tootsies so she wasn’t able to get up and walk around the base, but it was cool non the less.

We started heading back Monday night – made it to Chamberlain (should have stopped sooner). What a view that was on the way in. What a crappy Days Inn hotel. Oh well, it had a bed.

Picked up our cocklebur ridden pooch from Grandma Rose and Grandpa Stan’s on the way back through and visited for a while, and took our poor pooch back home and slept like babies!

All in all it was a great trip!!! It’s definitely family oriented and will be awesome when ours begins!!!