Mom's birthday weekend

When March comes around, we start to get a little stir crazy from the long winter.  So for my birthday, we decided to head to Rapid City for the weekend.  There is a hotel down there that has an indoor water park.  It turned out to be a fabulously fun, desperately needed, weekend. David took us to these dinosaurs on the hill that he hadn't been to since he was a kid.  These dinosaurs were 80 years old and a lot of fun to climb on, plus a ton of steps up the hill. 

We also drove past Mt Rushmore.  Aleck was asleep so he got to see it on our way back.  Our goal for that day was to find our way through the Needles Highway.  We had never been and had heard great things about it. 

We were so happy to have found this treasure!!!  We went through 3 different tunnels like this. The rock formations were beautiful and fun to climb upon.

This tunnel was BARELY wide enough for our Pilot to fit through

We even had a few turkeys cross our path.

Shortly after this picture, Aleck slipped on the ice and fell down hard.  Poor guy!

Then, on our way home we were excited to stop by this lovely, amazing place.  I haven't been here since I was a kid and David had never been.  What a fun place!  This is Devil's Tower in case you didn't know. 

There were even 6 people climbing it.  Very impressive!

We were just going to take the short path but ended up going all the way around.  We saw a lot of squirrels and heard woodpeckers.  Plus, the kids had fun collecting their own treasures.

Gotta love this picture posing girl!

Since visiting here, it made me want to watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  Come to find out, David had never watched it!!!  Unbelievable! So, we did.  I think the movie did well back in the 80's, definitely not an Interstellar.