South Dakota - Thursday

We drove to Mitchell, South Dakota on Wednesday, July 7th. We didn't do much "vacationy", except drive and go out to eat at a Whiskey Creek restaurant. It was a challenge to just get everything in the car without it going "boing" (very very full)! We enjoyed going to a nice dinner, since we don't do that much when in town.

On Thursday we went to the Little House on the Prairie Homestead. It was well worth the added driving. The kids got to ride miniature horses, drive a horse-drawn wagon, make a rope, corn-cob doll and old fashion toy. We got to see how they lived in the late 1800s. There was an old school, a sod-house, a shanty and the first "real" house (might have been a replica) that the Ingels lived in after arriving in South Dakota. FYI, they moved to the city in winter because the weather was so bad.





We also visited a pre-historic Indian site in Mitchell. It was a bit of a disappointment for me, because we arrived at 5:00 and there wasn't anyone but the gift-shop worker to tell us about the archaeological dig that they were doing. As you can see, I took very few pictures, but it was cool to see the dig. I just wish it could have been enhanced by a guide! (The kids favorite part was digging for bones/clay pots in the sand box. They each received an arrow-head after the dig.)

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