Great Weather

Today has been our first day of warm weather. It feels fantastic too. From what I head its a mess back home with the hurricane so I was happy to have a warm fall day. We started off this morning sleeping in, showers, and school. Then we headed too Hot Springs. But on the way we saw a sign for Wind Cave National Park and decided to stop.

Wind Cave was great. We took the one hour tour, talked to the rangers, heard lots of history, and on our way out bumped into another family and started talking about their dog. They had 3 daughters and were also home schoolers. We compared notes on where they have been vs us, home school lessons, and all the girls ran and played. It was a great afternoon. We saw more buffalo, lots of prairie dogs, and more mule horn deer.

We made it to the Mammoth Site and started exploring. Wouldn't you know it all the mammoths that died in the sink hole were males? Some say that's because the females knew it was dangerous and refused to get close- where the stubborn males went to eat the grass and couldn't get back out. There were so many jokes here I cant fit them all in this one post. The girls got to touch a lot of bones, ask alot of questions- considering we were the only one in our tour group, and it was a great afternoon for us. I highly recommend it for kids who love digging in the dirt.

We are now camped at a KOA. I'm making spaghetti for dinner, Ryan is tackling laundry. We are trying to decide if we should go to the wild horse place tomorrow. Its really really expensive. For the same price we could drive to Devil's tower and spend an afternoon hiking there. Anyways not sure what tomorrow holds for us, but that's part of the fun. I am starting to miss my bed, but my bed will still be there when we get back so I'm not worried about it.