We had a fantastic day trip today. Our family, Kiley's sister's family and her folks all met up early this morning for a day trip to the Badlands and the famous Wall Drug.
It was hot today and the Badlands make it feel hotter, but it was a great day. We took a walk with a park ranger who showed us all kinds of fossils (they constantly unearth new fossils here, one dig alone had over 20,000 animal fossils). His evolutionary history of the Earth got a little annoying with "We all know that this happened 30 million years ago...blah blah blah." We bit our tongues and played nice even though we wanted to ask questions that would poke all kinds of holes in the millions of years old Earth Theory that everyone assumes is fact these days (BTW - if you aren't familiar with this, a great place to start would be to see the Ben Stein movie Expelled).
Once through the first loop of the Badlands, we stopped at the famous tourist trap, Wall Drug. We had a great time, ate Ice Cream (notice a theme on our trip yet?), bought some souvenirs, played in the water park, had a T-rex roar at us and then headed back for the second loop of the badlands and an incredible, but hot, hike. We took what should be some great pics that I'll post on my Facebook site later hopefully.
Now, some supper, a shower, and another board game...Jason and I played Carcasonne: The Castle last night. He won. :-(
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