We are currently at a public library in Denver, so we thought we’d try to give an update.
The computer is still down. We looked a little bit today for a new hard drive but the picking was slim. Mel’s brother Matt is flying to Denver today, and he’s bringing his laptop, so we’ll be able to post throughout the summer at camp.
Here’s what happened on our trip.
Monday, May 28
This was another traveling day for us. We drove across South Dakota. It was beautiful out, but kind of windy. We decided to go through the Badlands on the way to Rapid City to help save time on Tuesday. We got to the Badlands around supper time. It is such weird country. You kind of have to be there to understand what it’s like. As we got to the end of the Badlands loop, there was a thunderstorm brewing in the distance. This happened to be the direction of Rapid City, which is where we were going to stay for the night. We ended up staying in Wall, SD because the thunderstorm looked really bad.
Tuesday, May 29
We drove through Custer State Park to view the animals. We were able to see buffalo and other such animals. The funniest stop was the burros. As you came around the corner there were several vehicles stopped and over a dozen burros in the road. When a vehicle would stop, several burros would step up to the car. Andrew’s family had the forsight to close their windows, so the burro only steamed up the glass. But we had our window down to take pictures. We ended up with a burro sticking his head in the car. He sniffed around and wouldn’t get his head out. I was laughing very hard, and Andrew was taking pictures. In order to get him to pull his head out we had to start driving off.
We went to Mount Rushmore toward evening. It was raining, so we staying inside most of the time. The monument was a lot smaller and farther away than I thought it would be.
Wednesday, May 30
We decided to take a detour in Wyoming to go to Devil’s Tower, another national monument. After entering the area we were looking at a prairie dog colony when some people Anthony knew from BJ showed up! What a small world.
Devil’s Tower was pretty neat. We walked up to the base of it (which is still quite a ways below it) and watched kids climbing on the rocks. We saw two people headed to climb up the tower, but we didn’t see anyone actually on the way up.
From Devil’s Tower we headed to Elephant’s Head Lodge between Cody and Yellowstone. In order to get there, we had to drive over a mountain range. At the bottom was a really cool canyon with some nice scenery and a waterfall. At the top we ran into snow. It started as rain, but in the higher elevations was fairly heavy snow. We got to Cody around dark. The cabin at the lodge was really tiny, but we never spent much time there so it wasn’t too bad.
Sadly, our pictures from Monday and Tuesday are on the laptop that isn’t working. We are hoping to be able to recover them when we get back to Greenville. We’ll post more pictures once we get a computer to download them off the camera. If you want to see pictures check out Abby’s posts.