Hello all from the Corn Palace! We had a wonderful day. We went to the Corn Palace this morning and overall were pretty disappointed. I remember going as a child and thinking it was really cool, but somehow it is not the same. Jenna wasn't that impressed either, the other 2 were along for the ride and interested in the "Corn-cession Stand." (really, that's what its called.) After the Corn Palace we got on the road to travel the 2 hrs. to the Badlands. We stopped and had a picnic lunch at a rest area. It was very nice.
Before we reached the Badlands we came upon an historical Prairie Home. All the Original Buildings so we took a tour of that, I snapped lots of pictures because we talk alot about immigration in my class and that will really fit in.
We were WOWED by the Badlands and very very much enjoyed them. It did a little hiking in the 109 degree temps, boy were the girls faces red from the heat. Although it was so hot, we couldn't just drive through the Badlands we had to "experience" them. We saw a fox and lots of praire dogs. We fed the prairie dogs cheez-its!
After spending most of the day at the Badlands, we traveled to Wall, SD. The home of Wall Drug. The town of Wall is a dive, and we chose a restaurant that looked pretty good, it was called Cactus Cafe and it was advertised quite a bit. It was awful! We went back to our hotel and went swimming and right now we are getting the girls tucked into bed. We were up quite late last night. It is 9:03 SD time, which is 10:03 Ia time so I guess it is not that early!
Tomorrow we are going to go downtown Wall and go through Wall Drug. Then we are heading to Mount Rushmore.
We still have not seen any buffalo. I thought I saw one way off in the distance but wasn't sure, so we can't count that. We are keeping track of all the liscence plates we see and we have about 28 so far.
Enjoy the pics of the Corn Palace and of the Badlands.
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