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After we finished Bear Country, we went to The Reptile Gardens. That was alot of fun, they have many many snakes and reptiles that you will never see in any other zoos or inclosures. My favorite tho was the Praire Dogs. They communitcate by doing sitting up and letting off a bark and sitting down, they look like there doing The Wave, I could sit and watch them for hours. We saw the bird show and snake show while there. This is a must see adventure if you ever get the chance. Jessicas favorite was the bearded dragons and the other lizards and skinks they have. Im thinking the giant tortuse was also a hilight to her. Pix above bear baby and bobcat from the Bear Country and Jessica with the big tortuse (he was over 100 years old) at the Reptile gardens.
From there we went driving threw the small towns and the hills by Mt Rushmore. We found over looks that had the most beautiful views and we saw many streams and small critters along the way. We got back around to Mt Rushmore at about sunset but it was getting rather chilly so we didnt spend alot of time walking around there. We went back to the campsite and cooked dinner and toasted marshmellows, then it was pretty much time to sleep. We had such a full day we were all tired.

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After the holiday back from trip

We left on early friday,the weather was suppost to be pretty good for the weekend in Rapid City SD. We got up there mid after noon and the wind was blowing like crazy, the KOA that we had reserved to stay at we found was in the middle of town and minimal trees around. We decited to stick with it and found a nice spot with trees. It ended up not to be to bad there but except for the traffic noise you could hear. We were gone most of the time from the campground so it worked out ok. Now the wind was an other story, we looked like key stone cops putting up the tents and so on. We found a really good resturant out side of town up twards Sturgis, the food was really good so was the service. It was nice to have a good meal after the long day of traveling and setting up.

The first day we went to a number of places, First I had to stop at the quilt shop I had seen the night before, The Quilt Connection, very nice well stocked store. I picked up a number of FQ's and a few books. Then we were off to Bear country, you drive threw part of it and then get out and walk. Many many animals to be seen, the wolf were hard to get a pix of, but the bears were right there to say hi. My favorite part was seeing the babys in the walk around area, most of the animals were out but a few were sleeping like the mountain lions. There were some newly born fox and bears, the river otters were so much fun to watch. Alot of my pix were taken the old fashion way with film, so when I get them developed I will be adding more pix.
The above pix are Jessica and Sean in front of the otter inclosure, me and Jessica in front of Mt Rushmore, and a Grizzley bear at bear country.

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