Our Adventure to South Dakota

Tuesday night, 8/26 we left St. Cloud for South Dakota. Both David and Allison were very excited for "Ca-cation"! We packed up the car (renting one first that would give us 35 miles to the gallon) and headed out West. Our first destination was Sioux Falls, which is where we stayed for the night.

That next morning we woke up and started out for our first destination....The Corn Palace! Allison and David were very impressed by the Corn Palace! They were not so impress by the lack of Corn Suckers at the gift shop. Allison decided she didn't want a "Hot Butter" flavored sucker and opted for the Blow Pop instead (very smart choice).

We soon all hopped in the car and were off to Wall Drug!! David was rather excited for his "Free Glass of Ice Water". We stopped at the pizza parlor for a pizzan and enough time to walk through the endless aisles of Wall Drug items that are soon to be found in Garage Sales nationwide. Once we had our fill of Wall Drug we continued on to the next destination.

We were all very excited to get to our Resort (Palmer Gulch) but as soon as we settled in we were off to Mt. Rushmore. We sat and watched Mt. Rushmore as the sun went down. David thought the names of the presidents were very funny....Especially Abe Lincoln! :-)

That evening when we got back we visited the fudge shop at our resort....Oreo Cookie Fudge...very good!

By Thursday morning we were all geared up to visit Bedrock City...Yaba Daba Doo! We loved riding the train around Fred and Wilma's city...it was such a great time! We then decided to go to Bear Country as we drove around the homes of large Grizzly Bears! Several bears got very close to our car...it was pretty cool! We then got out of car so we could see the baby bear cubes. Allison couldn't believe all "cute" they were up close!

You probably think that would be enough for the Volante's but...Oh No! Friday morning we all got up very early....packed up the car and headed off to....Reptile Gardens! Snakes, Lizards and Crocodiles...what else you ask....Allison's favorite the Praire Dogs!

Wow...by the time we all got back in the car we knew there was only one more place to go....HOME! So we all nessled back in our car so we could start the 9 hour trip back to St. Cloud so we could all relax before our next great adventure! But, not before stopping one more time at the 1880 Town for a bit of lunch at the 1950 Diner.