Beaverlake Campground
Custer, South Dakota
On a road trip a couple of years ago, we were talking about places we wanted to take our family. We had a pretty great list of places to visit together. Then Arthur said, "You know we better start doing some of these because Dallin will be leaving for his mission in 8 years." I couldn't believe that was only eight years away, and we only had 8 summer vacations and spring breaks to squeeze all those trips into! So on a piece of paper, we wrote down our list and started plugging in possible dates to do them. I am happy to say that this year we have checked off two of our family vacation bucket list items. Harry Potter Land was one of them, and Mount Rushmore was the 2nd one!
Originally we thought we'd cover a lot more ground in this trip and visit Yellowstone as well, but as we started looking into it, there is a TON of stuff to do in the Black Hills area. So we spent a week up there exploring Custer State Park, and a lot of the little towns in South Dakota. It was a blast! And I'm gonna do a separate post for each day, so brace yourselves for a lot of pictures.
Day 1
We arrived in Custer, South Dakota, at Beaverlake campground. We stayed in a tipi, which was novel and fun and better than I expected, actually. We cooked most of our meals at camp, and roasted marshmallows and the kids ran around the grass chasing the bunnies that were everywhere. There was also a playground, a pool with a SUPER cool waterside that you had to pay extra to go on, (which we did for one day and had a blast,) and tons of bikes that were free to use at the campground.
We couldn't have squeezed one more thing in that car if we tried. It was a miracle we got all that gear in there and a special technique had to be used to open the back door without everything falling out on that person.
Home, Sweet Home, for the week. The tipi was pretty cool actually.
Bennett would point to the fire and say, "Huh. Huh." (Hot? Maybe?)
5 comments:
Love the tipi! Can't wait to see the rest of the pictures! You guys need a car top carrier - we love ours - makes those back door openings not so precarious! :)
You should have borrowed our car top carrier. Next time! I'm anxious to hear all about your trip, because we want to do the same thing.
Even with a car top carrier, we were VERY fully loaded on our trip this year! Also, Sharee, I would love to see your list of trip possibilities sometime :)
Ha! Amber and Rachelle, we DO have a car top carrier that was stuffed full. I think the next time go camping for this long, we probably just need to haul a trailer or something. It requires an obscene amount of gear!
So many cute pictures! I love that you guys are taking the time to do some family vacations...looks like tons of fun, can't believe Dallin will be leaving on his mission in 8 years. Time sure does fly by!
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