The rest of Saturday and the weekend

If you can imagine, the previous post talking about Saturday was only two thirds of the day. After the lake we headed north about 30-40 minutes to Spearfish Canyon. It is a beautiful drive through the mountain bottom, aka canyon. We stopped at Roughlock Falls, (again, not sure if spelled right) and walked around and threw rocks into this large stream that lead to huge falls. We spent a hour or so here and finally on the way home gave up and let Ella watch Dora on the drive home. She was really good considering a pretty busy day.

Sunday--
We slept in this morning, well I did, which lead to us getting to Hill City late and not getting our train tickets purchased for the first ride! Kyle- not happy. Needless to say, we spent some time at the Crazy Horse monument and it was impressive to see and realize how big this monument will be some day and is privately-funded unlike Mt. Rushmore, which the good ol' government paid for.

We had a much better lunch today, at a cool restaurant in Hill City, headed to the train depot, it is the same tracks used in the 1880. Very cool. We saw some beautiful homes and views while on the train. It was a hour to Keystone and then we go back. Ella fell asleep during the last portion of the first ride and the seats didn't have a lot of give, so she didn't sleep long, hauling a 31 pound bundle of love asleep is HEAVY, lucky for me, she feel asleep on Kyle!!!

After the train ride we headed out to see Jewel Cave, about 25 miles away and though I was not super excited, this was something Kyle wanted to do, so I was being supportive. Well, we get there and guess what, due to a overwhelming amount of people wanting tours, the last tour was cancelled/delayed until Monday. Insert a not thrilled Kyle. We ended up traveling back to Custer State Park, fed the donkeys again and was in search of wildlife, we saw many and it was a great way to end our time in the hills.

Overall I think we put close to 300 miles just driving around, can you believe it.
We stopped on the way home Monday and got Kyle some new shade at Cabela's and they are very nice. I am way behind on posts and will try and fill in this past week again.