We had booked a hotel in Sioux City that had exercise equipment (after all the good work I did in Minneapolis I was determined to keep it going) so we got up early to get our heart rates up and burn off a few calories.
Bad idea. I am just not a morning person when it comes to exercise unless I really have to.
The breakfast there was great and soon we were on our way to De Smet to visit one of the homes that Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in when she was growing up. For those of you that don’t know she wrote Little House on the Prairie (amongst other books) about her life growing up. Interestingly she didn’t write them until she was in her 60’s.
We were on our way to Rapid City after that and we stopped off to see the Corn Palace. Every year it gets decorated in corn cobs. Sounds tacky (which I guess it kind of is) but it is an amazing work of art (I use that term loosely) and they use 12 different types of corn to give all the different colours they need to make the design work. Nicola got talking to the lovely old lady in a hair net (that’s not really relevant but I thought you might like to know) who was volunteering at the entrance counter. She loved the corn palace and could talk about it till the cows came home (love that saying), so we had a bit of trouble getting away from her once she started to chat.
Then it was off to The Badlands National park - one of the must do things on Nicola’s list. We got there later than we had hoped but it was still amazing especially as we got to see the sunset as well as some White tailed deer which were very cute and surprisingly curious about us.
Bad idea. I am just not a morning person when it comes to exercise unless I really have to.
The breakfast there was great and soon we were on our way to De Smet to visit one of the homes that Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in when she was growing up. For those of you that don’t know she wrote Little House on the Prairie (amongst other books) about her life growing up. Interestingly she didn’t write them until she was in her 60’s.
We were on our way to Rapid City after that and we stopped off to see the Corn Palace. Every year it gets decorated in corn cobs. Sounds tacky (which I guess it kind of is) but it is an amazing work of art (I use that term loosely) and they use 12 different types of corn to give all the different colours they need to make the design work. Nicola got talking to the lovely old lady in a hair net (that’s not really relevant but I thought you might like to know) who was volunteering at the entrance counter. She loved the corn palace and could talk about it till the cows came home (love that saying), so we had a bit of trouble getting away from her once she started to chat.
Then it was off to The Badlands National park - one of the must do things on Nicola’s list. We got there later than we had hoped but it was still amazing especially as we got to see the sunset as well as some White tailed deer which were very cute and surprisingly curious about us.
Sorry you can't really hear what we are saying in this video of The Badlands. Probably a good thing really as we are most likely speaking a whole heap of rubbish.
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