Day 44

Hi peoples!
    
     It's been a while. We've been staying at a lot of  state parks, so I haven't been able to get any Wi-Fi until now. Now we are in Minnesota! But for the past to weeks we were traveling though Montana and North Dakota. But before we to North Dakota, visited the Little Big Horn site in Montana just south of Billings. It was pretty exciting see where all the soldiers died, because there were white stones to mark where they fell. They had a cute little museum and a program where somebody talks to you about what happened. We did both but the lady who did the talking was pretty annoying because she would talk vvveerrryyy... ssllloowwlllyyy.... :D



     After Little Big Horn we stayed at the badlands in Montana for a couple nights. The first day was pretty fun there was a lot of trails to climb. After that, it rained the rest of the time we were there.

     While we were in the badlands we went to town. We were looking for a dinosaur museum, but it turns out that it no longer "existed". Instead the guy who owned it turned it into a toy/ music/ dinosaur/ comic book store. It was interesting. The comic books were collectables. He had a 38 foot T-rex in his store from the museum! And he also had a ton of guitars! He even showed me one that could be a ukulele or a guitar. It was the size of a ukulele but it's six strings were tuned to play as a ukulele or guitar. But what was really cool was some of the pictures he had. One showed his wife and daughter with the base player in Kiss! Is that cool or what!? He knew Jene Simmons! My dad told me to say that the guy who owned the store looked a lot like Ed Burns. :P
    
     Once we left the badlands we went to Fort Union. Since it is so close to North Dakota, the parking lot was in Montana and the Fort it's self was in North Dakota! Haha! It was cool to be able to see so much and so far in the towers. Jack liked to look at the canons that were up there. Inside the main building had a ton of furs piled in a corner. So we had some fun trying those on and taking pictures.

     
     A funny thing happened at the Missouri Yellowstone Interpretive Center. When we went to look inside there after the fort, it turned out that somebody was having a wedding at that moment! :) Thank goodness they had just finished up. We almost crashed a wedding.
    
     We stayed at Teddy Roosevelt National park from the 17th to the 18th. It was really cool, we got to see "cannon ball" like creations in the rock on some trails there. The rock kind of looked like the badlands. Just as pretty, if not more. From the 19th to the 22nd we stayed at Abraham Lincoln State Park. We all loved it there, especially my dad and Sammy. The was a really fun river and some cool biking and hiking trails. We got to see the inside of a reconstructed Indian village and got to climb in some more towers. ;D

    
     On the way to get to A. L. State Park we went on the Enchanted Highway. It was somewhere around 30 miles long. It had seven different giant statue creations as you drive along. We got some pictures of the birds and a couple others.

     The 22nd was my moms birthday! Since we left A. L. State Park that day, she decided that she wanted to see the Ronald Reagan Missile site. It was neat to see how and where everybody would have been at that time. I felt like I was stepping into my grandparents basement! The lower level, where all the missile stuff was, was weird. After being in there for a while, it made my stomach feel sick.

    
     Now here we are in Minnesota! We are right near Brainerd. We'll be here two nights. As I'm writing this, there is a big thunder storm going on. Muwahahaha! :)

-Rusty