Andrea Faith....Mackinaw Island....Granddaughters

We sure enjoyed 2 days at our daughter Kari's in the UP of Mi. Baby Andrea was dedicated the Sunday we were there...

We also spent 2 days in Cheboygan with my sister Donna... On Tuesday we went to Mackinaw Island...

We even went to the Butterfly House.. We have a lot of fun with Donna and Dick..

Then we drove to the West Branch area and spent 2 days with daughter Kristy.. Here is Beth and her horse Dusty ...

This girl is our 14 year old grand daughter Jessie... They LOVE to spend time in the motorhome...

Custer State Park

The road in the park, were really something!!! They would switch back and a lot of time the speed zone would be 15mph...

There were piles of tree and brush to eliminate the fires.... They burn them later in the winter...

A lot of you have probably seen Mt. Rushmore.. You could see it from a distance from Custer State Park..

The view was really beautiful.

At Custer State Park , we saw lots of wild donkeys who would come right up to the car to get cookies and crackers..

There were hundreds of bisons roaming the grounds... the reddish colored babies were so cute.

They put up fences to keep the bisons out of the hay instead of the other way around.

The babies were usually reddish in color...

The views were great...

Custer State Park.. Berlin Wall

As we were traveling in Custer State Park yesterday, we saw many signs like this one.. very windy and doublebacks..

This is some of the beautiful views we saw on the Needles Hyw.

There were a lot of one way tunnels...

Can you believed that we fit through there ? Not our motorhome !! NO WAY !!!

Tim at the sections of the Berlin Wall in Rapid City.. Very interesting to read about it all..

Chapel in the Hills....

On Thursday evening, we visited a Norwegian church which is the exact replica of a 850 year old church Borgund Stakirke in Laerdal, Norway. This is at the museum located there.. Tim and I and Lena and Ole...

This is our group photo of the Sowers... in front of the church.. Nancy and George, Tim and I and Barbie and Ken ...

Tim and Dave ( not a Sower ) painting the lattice work..

Guess who painting the camp signs..

Tim and I enjoying being retired and yet busy working in Sowers..

Spearfish and Belle Fourche, SD

Today we visited the fish hatchery in Spearfish, SD.. There were HUGE trout in an under ground viewing area.

They used to transport fish to plant in rivers and lakes around the nation in fish train cars...from 1874- 1927.. there were 2 cars specially built.. they transported 73 billion trout ..

These statues commemorate the men planting the fish in rivers and streams around the country.

In Belle Fourche, SD there is a spot marked to show the geographic center of the nations.. It used to be in Kansas until 1959 when Hawaii and Alaska were admitted into the nation...

Black Hills of South Dokota

Today we drove into Wyoming to visit Devil's Tower.. It is a huge rock jetting straight out of the hill side.. It is 1267 feet high...

The mt. is very scared to the Indians so they place prayer cloths on trees around the Devil Tower... They do not allow any rock climbing during the month of June because it is a scared time for the Indians and this is their site..

Tim acts like he just climbed the mt...

A lot of the rocks have fallen down over the years.. there are trails all around that you can take.

There were a lot of prairie dogs in the area..They were fun to watch...

Still painting !!!

HI.. No pictures this time... just realized how long it has been since I have blogged and I was just saying to my daughter-in -law Tabitha how people do not blog so much anymore... must be vacations.... We have been busy every day here at the project painting... decks and steps and today, he changed our job to painting signs for the camp.. lettering and all... then he reminds us they need to be ready to put back up by tomorrow as they are the directions signs and they have a large group coming in on Thursday....It has been SO HOT --96* painting out in the sun that today he moved us under the trees... still hot work.. nice that they feed us every meal so all we have to do is show up to the dining hall....plan "sightseeing ' this Friday.. maybe I'll have pictures to blog...

Friday activities

On Friday we spent a few hours walking in downtown Rapid City looking at the statues of the Presidents... They stand on the corners and so far there are about 32 of the 44. They started in 2000 and plan to add 4 each year... This was a vehicle that passed by as we were walking.. They plan to make it across America in 2009.... They were happy to wave at us as they rode along..

This is Tim with President Monroe... Trying to feed him a soda..

Here I am with John Adams... It was really an interesting way to spend a few hours...

Painting... painting... painting !!!

Tim helped us paint on this deck as a lot of the places were too high for the ladies to reach ..

Here I am painting one of the 5 sets of steps that we painted... Glad that today is Thursday and we get 3 days off to relax... Today it rained so we cleaned all the tables and chairs in the dining hall and 10 fans... This is a good project and we work with another couple who are not Sowers but RVics... Wanda and Dave.. real nice people...

Rapid City, South Dakota

All smiles on our first day of work !!

This is our home for the next 3 weeks... We are actually parked up on a big hill top..

A path right across from our site called Inspirational Point... If you just kept walking, you would drop off a big cliff. There is a cross and a bench down there to sit and meditate...

Tim getting ready to spray strain the cabin.. A very messy job !!!