South Dakota Trip

On May 30th I took a trip to South Dakota, along with my friend Margie Holbrook and my granddaughter Helen. We went to visit my daughter Kimberly and her husband Patrick. We had such a good time that we really didn't want to leave to come home. Unfortunately there is this thing called work and a thing called bills. You know what I mean, you have to work so you can live. Kimberly and Patrick, had the whole week planned with fun things to do. On Monday Patrick took the day off work; we headed for the Badlands and Wall Drug. You'd never believe the Badlands were even there. On Tuesday morning the 3 girls went to breakfast at Perkins. After breakfast we headed for Storybook Island. It a theme park made up with storybook characters. That evening we all went to Watiki water park for a ride down the lazy river on tubes. Of course I can't forget the water slides, oh my heck, what a thrill. Both times down the slides I had Helen go over my head and the next time it was Patrick. I thought I was going to drown. Afterwards we went to Arnold's Diner for something to eat. It's a 50's style diner, Patrick even danced with his niece Helen. Wednesday morning Patrick took us on a tour of a B1; we even got to go up into the cockpit. That was real neat, but a little cramped for my liking. Kimberly, Margie & I went to Deadwood for the evening. Patrick took Helen to Chuck E. Cheese for an evening of fun. Thursday morning the 4 of us girls got up and went to Cosmos. When that was done we drove to Hill City and had lunch at the Alpine Inn Restaurant; talk about good German food, and the dessert was fabulous. From there we drove to Keystone, and looked for souvenir's for the rest of my grandchildren in UT. That evening we went to Bandit Lanes for burgers and fries and $1.00 night bowling. Friday morning the girls went to Golden Corral for breakfast, then we went shopping at Wal-Mart and Kimberly's favorite department store, Kohl's. I must say I did get a few things for myself. That night we went to Putz n Glo, to play miniature golf. We actually ate at home, we had burgers on the grill. After dinner Kimberly's friend Kris came over to visit with us for a little while. In to bed early, because we had an early morning on Saturday. The dreaded 12 hour drive back to UT. We really had a fun time, I'm thinking of taking one of my other granddaughters, Natasha, next time.