May 14, 2022
We awoke to real nice weather. Today’s agenda will be a walk around Sylvan Lake. There is a 1 mile trail around the lake. It’s an easy hike but we did not do the entire round trip. We had Bree with us. We enjoyed the walk, the beautiful scenery and talking with a lot of nice people. We decided that on another day, we would return without Bree and walk the entire trail. After exploring the gift shop we decided to just drive around and sight see.
As a side note, we decided to to do a couple of things. One is to collect Christmas ornaments from the various places we visited . This is because we will not be home this year for Christmas. Nancy thought it would be cool to do. I agree. One downfall to the ornament idea is that they are sometimes the size of a baseball and fragile. We came up with an idea. Why not use keychains? So our Christmas ornament will depend on what we find is cool and affordable.
The other thing we are doing is getting post cards and sending them to our grandchildren. We will try to incorporate some education into them as well, most of the time. Braxton was happy to finally get some mail. Michelle also got the US wall map out and it gives the boys an idea of where we are at or have been. They say they enjoy them.
We took the Blue Star Memorial Highway again. I might note here that the deer alongside the road I talked about yesterday, was actually today. The picture says it all. We headed to a little town called Keystone. In order to get there we had to pass by Mount Rushmore. It was awesome. Can’t wait to get to see more of it. We arrived in Keystone. There are a couple of places I want to go back to on another day. The town is small enough that you can park and walk the entire town. It looks awesome. Can’t wait. Not wanting to travel the same road we took yet another road back home. This way took us back through Custer State Park on the Norbeck Parkway. It was very curvy and took us over Iron Mountain. It was awesome. Time consuming but beautiful. We finally got to see our first wild bison. Actually we saw 3. All single bulls in 3 different locations. Totally oblivious to people. All in all, a great day!
