Over Labor day weekend, we stayed at a KOA behind Mt Rushmore called Pulmer Gulch. So fun! I highly recommend you google it and plan a camping trip sometime in the future. Very kid friendly and lots to do in the Black Hills. One of our highlights of the weekend was taking a ride on the 1880 vintage steam train. Our two-hour ride took us from Keystone to Hill City and back. Maci absolutely loved it. I think it was because she wasn't in a car seat with closed windows. On the train, she could feel the wind and be free!
The next day we went to Story Book Island. It is a free park that the Rotary Club has put together and stays in business solely on donations. What a wonderful idea! I am glad it is still free. Not many things are these days. This place was so magical. We will definitely come back when Maci is a few years older and when she will understand more of the stories. When you walk in, you come to a castle which has Rapunzel's hair hanging down. Then all the stories come to life for you. The ginger bread man, black beauty, the three little pigs, Jack and the beanstalk, Pinnocio, Pocohontas, the Wizard of Oz, Winnie the Pooh and friends, Robin Hood, the cat in the hat, Cinderella, every princess imaginable, and a big shoe from "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many kids, she didn't know what to do..." And all this was only probably half of what was there. Then there was a huge playground at the end. We let Maci swing probably for 20 minutes and she cried when we took her out. She loves to swing. This was a MUST picture! So cute and so true. This is the stork that stopped at our house with the cutest little girl on the planet!
She loved going around in this with her cousins.
And of course, she had to ride Toto.
It was a very fun, long day for her. She was pretty tuckered at the end of the day. I think she fell asleep before we hit the end of the driveway. 
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