So, its been forever since I last blogged, and I apologize, I have enough material for five posts, but I can't put it off anymore, I have to start somewhere. These last two and half months our little family has been so blessed with many adventures, travels, birthdays and a new home! Yep! We bought our first home and are officially moved in! But lets rewind and take it one thing at a time. In the first week of May, Ryan had to travel to Rapid City, SD for a five day training for his work, since his work would be funding almost the entire trip, we decided to make a family road trip and tag along with Ryan, I mean who could pass up Rapid City, South Dakota? Although it was a long drive the girls were awesome in the car, we broke up the trip in two days there and back so that helped alot. We stayed at a fun hotel with a pool and playground and had a full kitchen and two bedrooms so we could be seperate from the girls for the week. When we arrived to Rapid City, we took a 1880 locamotive train ride through the black hills. Juliet was estatic to go on a real train ride. We didn't realize the whole round trip would take 2hours! The excitement of the train wore off after about 15 mins and then it was a wrestling match for the rest of the time to keep them in their seats and quiet, but it was still worth it.
Us standing in front of the train
Claire was happy!
Getting ready to go!
The next day after going to church, we headed out for an afternoon at Mt. Rushmore! This is the main reason why I wanted to come, Mt. Rushmore is only 25mins from Rapid City and I have always wanted to see it, so we had to take this opportunity to see this amazing monument. We took a million pictures, but these ones turned out the best. They have a boardwalk that you can walk all around up right underneath it, it was so amazing to see it up close and the visitors musuem was very interesting and fun to walk through. I am so glad we took the time to go visit this, the girls probably won't remember it, but I always will.
Christmas card shot?
So, then after Mt. Rushmore, the rest of the week was rainy, cold and even snowy! So, me and girls mainly hung around the hotel, watched movies and went swimming. It was fun just to relax though and not have to worry about household stuff.
We took the girls to the Journey museum one evening when Ryan was done with his training, they had some awesome exhibits, thats a wooly mammoth behind us.
On the way home we took a slight detour and drove to Devil's monument, which is this amazing rock formation out in the middle of now where, how it got there, who knows, but its supposedly an ancient sacred monument to Indians, it was cool to see.
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