bad blogger...

Well I am a bad blogger and my last 3 posts are all messed up... so, read them from the bottom up...haha I suck at this. Now you know why I never do this junk.

Flintstone Village & Independence Rock

This was the highlight of our trip to South Dakota...ok well it was for me. It may or may not have been the main reason I wanted to go... Flintstone Village is pretty much just a kiddie park tourist attraction but it was cute and it was way fun for all of us!

On our home we stopped in Wyoming at Independence Rock. I had never been there or actually even heard of it. It was pretty neat to see all the signatures from everyone who crossed the Oregon Trail. All I know is I am glad I live at the time I do, thank goodness for motor vehicles!!

Cabin & Mt. Rushmore

Eric's family rented a cabin in the Black Hills so all 15 of us stayed there Saturday night. It was a little tight but that was the whole fun of it. It was so peaceful and GORGEOUS!

This is a little deserted cabin that was just a few feet from ours. We tried to convince all the little girls to sleep there but they wouldn't haven't. Something about bears...?
Our first stop as tourists was Mt. Rushmore. It's pretty much just a rock with a bunch of faces and TONS of people just stop and take pictures, that's pretty much it. There is also a small museum and a gift shop but that's about the extent of it. Either way it was pretty neat and now i can say that I've been there...

SOUTH DAKOTA!!!

Last weekend Eric's brother got married in South Dakota and he invited me to go with him. It was quite the adventure. The drive was about 78 thousand hours I think. We left around 3 and we were already exhausted we had to stop 2 times to sleep. The first time was for 2 hours and the second one was for 5. Eric said he only need a 1/2 hour nap...see how that went down. We were stopped in Buffalo about 3 hours away from our destination (rapid city). We parked at a car wash and slept. Around 2ish I asked him if we should get on the road and he said just a few more minutes. Well needless to say we didn't get our of there until 6 the next morning. We made it to rapid city around 9, slept for a couple hours and then got ready for the wedding. The wedding was very nice, the reception hall was gorgeous and the drunks were entertaining...what more could you want from a wedding???

The morning after the wedding they had a breakfast for the wedding party. One of the step brother inlaws is a pilot for the black hills life flight and he offered to take us up in his plane. He had room for 6 so it was me, eric, his brother kort, brother inlaws justin and aaron, and his sister shanna. Well they thought it was a good idea to let justin fly the plane....NOT a good idea. We were tipping left and right and they would switch off flying so we'd tip and then steady out then tip then steady out. Well between the fact that we had just ate, the a.c. was horrible, and they let justin fly...I got a little sick as we were decending....Eric turned to me and said are ok? right as he said that I turned and puked! I aimed for the garbage can located between myself and shanna and tried to sheild her with my hand. That didn't work so well....I vomited all over her...it was a little embarrassing to say the least...but I felt better...

Justin in the cockpit. He was loving life!
Shanna pre-vomit explosion...