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...