Holiday Inn Sioux Falls-City Centre, Sd

... with 2 cappuccinos worst coffee so far. Its interesting the cost of Macca&#8217;s compared to the diners.<br><br>Then we went to Madison a beautiful university town on the lake. Full of students hurrying to attend lectures bikes, mopeds, pedestrians everywhere. Looks like a great town to go to college very picturesque.<br><br>We got a little bit lost getting out of Madison and ended up on a back road thru some small farms. We around a ...

... top of the falls, beside the falls and below the falls. (They are pretty tame). Charlie, who you cannot lure into a swimming pool, was fascinated with the water and almost jumped off one of the ledges. He pulled me down to the water&#8217;s edge below the falls and would have gone into the river if I hadn&#8217;t a good hold on him. So he just waded a big. Who knew!! Hhe gathered many pettings, sniffed lots of doggies and fell in love with a 2 month old "Teddy-Bear" dog ...

... we took, led straight to a herd of sheep out in the meadow, along the road and crossing the road. Several cars pulled up beside me as we furiously snapped photos.<br><br>Near the exit on the East side, I stopped at a "Original Homestead". Inside the store entrance, I bought a couple of souvenirs for my grand-daughters. (Ha, ha, now you'll have to keep guessing for weeks, girls!). <br><br>From Badlands to Sioux Falls was a long ...

... we know that after a short while Angus had completed ALL the laundry, while Morgan and I watched a movie on the laptop. Oh how we love our little brother! By 10 pm that night the rain turned into an all out storm complete with thunder and lightning. But if there is one thing we have learned on this trip it has been how to handle thunder and lightning, so it wasn't a big deal for us.

... great to see buffalo at last after spending two days in Wyoming and South Dakota buffalo country. <br><br>In Hot Springs we toured an active archaeological dig, the Mammoth Site. This site was discovered by contractors in the 1970's. Apparently they uncovered what was an ancient sink hole that had been filled with warm waters during the last ice age. Both Columbian and Woolly Mammoths had roamed the area, and wandered into the water, but were unable to get out. So far they have ...

... amp; drink once we had headed inside the gates we headed up to the 'party deck' to get some food &amp; a drink! <br><br> Just as we did, the weather turned &amp; in came the rain! It was torrential! The wind got up too! <br><br> <br><br><br> It was soon obvious that we wouldn't get to see the baseball game &amp; instead tried to ...

... time and get more knowledge about the Lakota Tribe. I had to turn it down, this is one of these things that I didn't want to do on my own. As much as I liked Rodger and sure that he was a kind and good person, I couldn't take him up on his offer. So I thanked him kindly but that I didn't want to drive all the way to Sioux Falls in the dark so he said that if I would ever be in the area, to stop by and the offer stands to show me around. This was such ...