Thursday, June 26, 2008

Uncle Mike and Aunt Nicole, we loved our visit to Rapid City

Ready to Party!




So Mike and Nicole have an annual Hog Roast every year, and for the first time we were able to make it out there as a family. Of course the rest of Jim's family had other things going on. (Like Jeff buying a house, and Suzy making the sale, and mom and dad doing the slave labor in Jeff's new house.) So Jim, Elizabeth and I headed to Rapid City to enjoy a nice long weekend away. It was a lot of fun and we did a lot of sight seeing. We went to Mount Rushmore, drove through Custer State Park (beautiful, I might add), drove through the Badlands, ate at Wall Drug, and went to Deadwood. It was quite a fun trip. We also went to an amazing party - The 6th Annual Keegan Hog Roast. Here are some pictures.



Mount Rushmore was pretty cool. We were able to do some exploring, and Elizabeth did some "jeeping" in her cool stroller. We had a fun afternoon.




We also drove through the Badlands. We stopped a few places, like the "Big Pig Dig" and saw some amazing views. It was definitely hot, but we believe it was probably the greenest it has been in some years. We saw a ton of wild life, Pronghorns, sheep, buffalo, etc, but luckily we didn't see any rattlesnakes.

Elizabeth enjoyed chilling out with Uncle Mike at the party. We met a lot of nice people and enjoyed a lot of great food. Mike and Nicole were great hosts, they fed us several great meals while we were at their house. Elizabeth really enjoyed playing with Nicole's parents' dogs. They were much mellower then her Max.



1 comment:

LIZ said...

Wow, sounds like it was a great vacation!