After a long day of dams, badlands, & national monuments, we rolled into Deadwood a bit tired and very hungry(there was also that time change..which was great..LOVED gaining an hour but...totally threw off our food schedule that day! ) Now, when I say rolled...I mean drove in our suv....not like the majority of the rest of the people who had two basic modes of transportation....either the two-wheeled kind(ok, an occasional three wheeler was seen too) or the kind with 6-8 wheels (ie campers/motorcoaches) ....that was...interesting.....
To say that we stood out is...well..an understatement to be sure! But it was a complete paradise for people watching and, as we were exhausted...sitting outside eating our burgers watching it all go by worked perfectly! Truly..if I hadn't known Sturgis isn't until August...it would have been hard to convince me of it there!
The hotel was super cool! Except for the first floor(and tvs)..I could imagine myself back in time..not that the first floor wasn't nice, it was, it just had all of the slot machines~not quite the same as card games from the past, alot...brighter!!!! The room was lovely and we had an actual key...with the coolest old timey fob ever! The beds were good and I slept quite well...until 6 am...when the sun came up....that kinda stunk........but it got one of the best lines from the trip...L said, "Ugh..it's too bright, turn off the light!" Someone replied, "That's not a light, it's the sun!" L's response...... "Well then somebody turn off the sun!!!!"
I nearly fell out of the bed I was laughing so hard :)
But we got up and had an excellent breakfast downstairs. It was quaint and would have been awesome in the fall or winter, the fireplace was huge!!! and delish....but..I loooove breakfast food..I just hate cooking /&..... ok, really just cleaning in the morning! Then we went up the block and took some old timey pics. It was really quite fun and the girls totally got into it as they got to hold guns and it was kinda scary how totally casual they looked doing that…hmmmmm…plus they rocked the serious faces, L didn’t even want to smile in the fun ones because then you would see her braces and they didn’t have those back then!!!! (Yeah..no idea where she got the so very literal side of her from at all….)
After that excitement, we continued west and saw Devil's Tower! We even hiked around the base and touched it!!! I kept waiting for music...... And oddly enough there was some…I kid you not!! First though we saw the tiniest little owl ever!!!! And then a guy playing a mini keyboard…but oddly enough he was playing Star Trek..really…and then when he tried to play the Close Encounters notes….he couldn’t get the last one right…weird huh????
Then we went a bit to the southwest...home....through the Bighorns first...that was....well...it made me do my mountain giggle, as the girls dubbed it! It was so wonderful to see the snowcapped peaks and to watch as they grew ever bigger on the horizon and then completely filled the windshield! They were truly a beautiful site and the drive and the snow too! And the snow...well let’s just say there was a lot still…and it was in the sun….at lower elevations even….hmmmmmmmmmmmm. But it was nice...I “remembered”....ya know…I could feel it in my bones..in my soul :D
Anyway...this concludes today's post..as the true homecoming deserves one all on its own!
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| Devil's Towe as we approach! |
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| The 'back' of it while on the hike. |
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| The 'front' while on the hike. |
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| Tiniest baby owl in the very center! |
Blog ya later-
K
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We stayed in Deadwood for a night during a family vacation when I was little. The thing I remember the most was all the slot machines. They were everywhere!
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