Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Road Trip 2015 - Day 2 - Driving, Walnut Grove & Sioux Falls

We woke up in Mankato to have hotel breakfast and then started driving to Walnut Grove, the last Laura Ingalls Wilder house I had to go to. We arrived there after a while and it was amazing. The original dugout and frame house are gone, but we could see Plum Creek, the depression where the dugout was, the Table Lands, Big Rock, spring and other important landmarks. We went in Plum Creek, and looked at everything. We also saw the marker that the county had placed by the side of the road to commemorate her life. Then, we drove over to the museum and gift shop. A, B and I got a bonnet. (Mom paid for J's 30-Second Math book from Barnes & Noble.) We decided not to go in museum so we could get to Sioux Falls earlier, and the museum was mostly about the TV show, which we don't care about as much.

I drove out of Walnut Grove and through a lot of nowhere towns in Minnesota. I actually drove over the state line to South Dakota! My first state line! You could tell where it was from about ten miles out because of a large train car that someone had dragged to the side of the road and painted on the word "FIREWORKS". I drove from there to Brookings, where we ate at Qdoba and then headed over to the GameStop next door because J and B wanted to look at Pokemon and Skylanders and other such stuff. A and I looked at Pop Vinyl figures. They had the Harry Potter collection, which looked quite good, but that location did not have the Dumbledore one, or I would have bought it. Mom and Dad got coffee and we drove on to Sioux Falls.
The park in Sioux Falls is free, and scenic, and amazing. You can go in the river, look at the river, and have a grand old time in general.

Birds outside bathrooms

Pretty flower pots

American and South Dakotan flags

The Falls


Ducks!

Duck going up waterfall (duck is on left)

Same Duck: Success!

Falls and Train: Taken by B

Falls and Train: Taken by Me

Daredevil Duck

Baby ducks in the middle

Plane!

Footprints

It's my feet!

Baby Ducks!


We left Sioux Falls and headed to Rapid City. We barely missed the KOA checkin time, but got to the cabin just fine anyway. After that, we drove around to find a place to eat. We ended up eating Dominos pizza on the bed in the cabin. Finally, we slept.
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Chorus of the Day!

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah


Last Chorus of the Day:
The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy
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La! ~SCP

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