Wall Drug, SD

Wall, South Dakota: home of Wall Drug, one of our favorite stops heading out west! The ice water is free and coffee is 5cents! You can get everything from taffy to sudafed to black hills gold jewelry to clothing to cowboy boots  here! There are tons of statues and places to rest yourself. There's a roaring dinosaur that transfixes and terrifies at the same time. A statue of a jackalope sits out back that I sat on as a child and a new water area is a huge draw for our children!! Our trip just wouldn't be complete without a visit to Wall Drug...

Prairie Dogs...

After the corn palace, we made it to the edge of the Badlands and The Ranch Store. The Ranch Store has been there since I was a little girl. It is a fun memory of feeding the prairie dogs for me, so we stopped. Al tried to rest a little and Emily, Carter, and Casey and I tried to feed and of course I was taking pics!!!

Emily got pretty close, but there were some other kids that were quite excited that kept frustrating her so she didn't actually get a prairie dog to take the treat from her, but she got darn close.

What does this make you think of?? I kept expecting a prairie dog to pop out and bite their noses or something...

Al perked up at the end and took a stroll around with us.

Lastly, a picture by the giant prairie dog!!! I don't know how many times I did this and the prairie dog looks the same to me, but my parents said it has been painted.

V - A- C- A - T - I - O - N!!!!

We left on July 1st and drove all the way to Mitchell, South Dakota. Of course, we slept in a Wal-Mart parking lot! Kind of a tradition now. We got up and headed to the Corn Palace. We actually went inside this time because Carter wanted to and we had never done that with the kids before. Kind of fun and we bought some Brain Quest trivia for the rides in the car.

These hats were hilarious!

I loved the Boy Scouts of America panel! Me and my boy scout!!!

Al took this cool picture at a rest area in Chamberlain, SD. I love the reflection and that you can see the teepee inside too that was part of a mini museum of sorts.

Here's my artisitic vision of the teepee thingy!!



On the road again.....More vacation to follow!! We're only getting going!!