Day 6- leaving SD and heading to UGH Montana.
If you are asking if you had too much "happy" at happy hour and missed day 5. You didn't and yes I know 5 comes before 6 but I am still working on that day....so you know it's going to be good. LOL! Now on to day 6.
So our day in Rapids City started full of adventure. Let me start off by saying...WE WERE NOT STAYING IN THE GHETTO! It was a nice Holiday Inn in Rapids City with a lovely breakfast nook and wonderful breakfast buffet.
As dawn happened upon the City of Rapids Gunner and Roxie get up at 6 am for their morning potty. This is where it all started. I took the pups downstairs and they of course said hello to everyone. Dave's task was to load the car. I saw some dude sitting on the side of the flower bed holding his head. I just thought to myself "hmm he had a rough night" but Roxie and Gunner needed to go bad so I didn't have time to stare. Let me add that if staring was an olympic sport I would win a gold medal. So the pups finished their "business" and the three of us headed toward Dave that was packing the car. He said to me "did you see the homeless guy sitting on the flower bed?" I said "hmm I thought that guy was just having a hard morning after." Dave told me that was an understatement. He informed me that the guy's head was busted open and he was bleeding everywhere. Of course my first thought/statement was damn I miss everything. At that very moment the cops followed by EMT came screaming into the parking lot. Being my nosy self I NEEDED to get inside.(thank you Holiday Inn for a breakfast coupon)! As we walked inside, Dave said careful there is blood on the handle. Yeah the homeless dude made his way into the lobby of the hotel and guess what PASSED OUT in the middle of the lobby!!!! WTF?!? So we sort of walking around him. Well Dave had to guide me since I am now lost to all things but the dude passed out in the lobby. Being the nosy person I am, I picked the table with the best view of the lobby. Needless to say the Creasmans didn't have a rousing breakfast conversation. I have tried to find out what happened but nothing...no news of any kind on line.
After all an already eventful morning we headed up and moved out. Custer State Park was our first stop. As we stopped at the gate the guard stopped us for payment. Dave asked for the military rate and this started one very interesting conversation. The guy started talking about his brother being in the big one and that later he joined the military. He started taking about his job and he proceeds to tell us he used to load atomic bombs on B52 bomber. Of course Dave finds this fascinating and I had lots of questions. None of which got answered because there were people behind us.
As we headed into the park we saw some random buffalo. There is a big heard that lives in the park so it was strange that we saw one of them alone. We turned and moved though the park I saw some really beautiful sights. We got stopped by a heard of donkey standing in the road. One of the donkeys tried to get into the guys car in front of us. The guy kept swatting at him. It was so funny until that donkey tried to get into ours. Gunner and Roxie freaked out. Picture spinning, whining, drooling and barking all while in the kennel and you are with us in that moment. Thank goodness for my window being rolled up.
We finally got out of the donkey traffic jam and found out that we just missed the buffalo round up by two days. We were lucky enough to see the entire heard in one spot. We were able to get out of the car to take pictures (thank you fence). I guess a mama buffalo didnt take kindly to being photographed. She snorted, stomped the ground and charged. Again, thank you fence! We decided it was time to go.
We made our way to Mt. Rushmore. It was very cool. I thought I saw a bald eagle flying over the mountain turns out it was just a big ass black bird. We met a very interesting man in the gift shop. Him and his wife basically goes from national park to national park working. They were heading south in about two weeks. I wanted to ask so many questions but damn another line was forming so we moved on.
Our next stop was Battle of Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand. It was very cool and really kept the way it was back in the day. Word of warning...always stay in the walk way. I said to Dave...I hear rattling...I looked to my left and there was a 3 foot rattle snake slithering away.
In other news:
Dave is trying to catch up with Gunner. Somewhere in SD he hit a bird. Yep that little creep flew into the windshield which further enhanced my "love" of birds.
We saw another guy being taken away in an ambulance in Billings. That us two in one day.
We went to Deadwood, SD to see where Wild Bill Hickock was killed. They were charging a $1 to get into the cemetery. We just looked at the Gaye. I mean $1 is almost a diet coke.
Billings, MO made me cry. The very second we drove into that town the tears flowed like the mighty Mississippi!! Thank God we left the next morning!
The drive from SD to MO was the worst! No cell service, no places to pee, no food....no nothing!
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