Vacation day 3, 4 and 5!

Hello faithful blog readers! We are back in civilization so we can share our journey. I will be updating for you tonight the last 3 days of our vacation. The reason I couldn't post was because we were in the hills of SD, in the Black Hills. We stayed at "High Country Guest Ranch" for 2 nights, Tues. and Wed. night. It was out in the middle of nowhere and our cabin (pictured in the colage) had no internet service, no phone service (or cell phone connection) and no t.v. Ya know- believe it or not- we had a great time! There were many adventures that I will write about. I will go day by day.

Tuesday the 17th. ..We had stayed all night in Wall, SD on Monday night and then got up Tues. and went to the "famous" Wall Drug that they advertise in South Africa and even in Iraq. We were sorely disappointed! I guess we were expecting so much more, or maybe less, it was way too commercialized. If you ever get a chance to go there, don't. It's not worth the trip or time. After spending awhile there we traveled to the Black Hills and got to Hill City, SD. This is where we stayed at the guest ranch. Our cabin was nice but like I said it was pretty secluded. There were lots of horses on the ranch in coral and Mikayla especially LOVED riding "Dan" the pony! We could just go and get him from the barn and lead him around any time we wanted. Outside our cabin there was a hot tub and it was beautiful with the Black Hills to look at. Also on this day Jeff, Mikayla and Jenna rode up the side of a mountain on a chairlift and the got to alpine slide back down again. We also went to Bear Country USA a drive through wild life park. There were all kinds of animals but we especially loved all the bears. There were so many of them, really close to our car.