June 10, 2012

Our trip out

Our trip out went really well! We decided to take a different route this year so we headed up to I90 instead of taking I80 like we always do. We did not get too far that first night because we left rather late, had to stop and get gas right away and then realized it was already time for dinner. That was in Lake Mills!! But that first night, we did get out of state.

The next night we decided to stay in a hotel. It was, well...how can I say this.....quite original. The gentleman who checked us in was featured in the brochure wearing a hot pink fluesent swimsuit sitting by the hot tub. Some rooms only had hot tubs and no showers....yuck! There were actually more cattle in this county than people! Anyway, we were glad we stayed because a huge storm rolled through, even knocked the power out, we were grateful we were not in the camper. And glad to not listen to the cat meowing all night!

The next day we headed to the western part of South Dakota. We drove along the eastern part of the Custer State Park. Although there were other routes we wanted to take, the camper limited us because there were several tunnels and the camper would not make it so we would have gone a rather round-a-bout way and we did not want to go that far out of our way.

We entered the state park area hoping to see the bison that lived there. Boy, did we see bison. Hundreds of them!! And pretty close to the camper too!

There were also burros and they came right up to the camper window. Utah jumped up onto Scott's lap and they all made friends. Katie even fed one an apple and it practically stuck its head through the window!

We slept that night in Rock Springs, WY. We have actually stayed there at least one other time so we were like regulars in the Walmart parking lot!! HEY! When you are only pulling off the road to sleep a few hours, why pay to stay at a campground when Walmart is free?

We arrived on Saturday afternoon.

We let the cat out and within 15 minutes had already caught a mouse (which she so wonderfully brought back to place in her food bowl and eat it out of there!) We spent the rest of the day over at the ranch house playing with the new dogs that showed up outta nowhere. But they are border collies, super cute and friendly and love us.

We came home, had a quick supper & shower and then all went to bed pretty early.

When I tucked in Katie and she told me what her favorite part of the day was....it was getting to Utah!