We got up on on the road by 9 a.m. we drove 1 hour 45 minutes to Devils Tower. Unfortunately about 15 minutest before Devils Tower; luckily at a turn out, Keagan got car sick. Luck for us she gave us warning and it was a minimal incident. Then we finished our way to Devils Tower.
Devils Tower
WOW, seriously WOW! This place is so much more magnificent in person, pictures are great but in person was amazing! This was my favorite thing we did! It was a beautiful day and we had the most amazing view for our picnic. We found a Gas station/Gift shop with a lawn and picnic tables. We as usually had packed our lunch for the day so we were able to have a picnic all by ourselves, in the shade with Devils Tower as our view!
The Legend of Devils Tower
One day, an Indian tribe was camped beside the river and seven small girls were playing at a distance. The region had a large bear population and a bear began to chase the girls. They ran back towards their village, but the bear was about to catch them. The girls jumped upon a rock about three feet high and began to pray to the rock, "Rock, take pity on us; Rock, save us." The rock heard the pleas of the young girls and began to elongate itself upwards, pushing them higher and higher out of reach of the bear. The bear clawed and jumped at the sides of the rock, but broke it's claws and fell to the ground. The bear continued to jump at the rock until the girls were pushed up into the sky, where they are, to this day, in a group of seven little stars (the Pleiades constellation). The marks of the bear claws are there yet, too. As one looks upon the Tower and contemplates its uniqueness it isn't hard to imagine this legend as fact.
Shay pointed this sign out to me ; ) I think she could tell
the Keke car sickness was a tad stressful for a few minutes
Libby
Shay
Justice and Heather
Seriously what better view for a picnic!?!
We decided we could eat out at least once on this trip ; ) so we had Shay and Libby search for restaurants on their phones. They found a fun restaurant with a yummy menu that everyone was excited about but unfortunately when we got there they had went out of business : (. So we decided we would head over to the Irma Hotel and watch the Shootout Show.
Shootout ShowWe got there just in time to get the last 10 seats. The younger kids loved it! Hanna and Justice told me it was one of their favorite things we did this trip and I'm pretty sure Grandma JoAnn loved it too!!! Keagan was not so impressed with the loud shooting.
Grandma getting her autographs
Kabree got her picture taken with Annie Oakley
Peters Cafe
After the Shootout we were all starving and decided we would just eat at the first place we saw and lucky for us it was Peters Cafe. Wow it was so yummy. Heather and her family all tried the buffalo burgers, we weren't so brave and got corn dogs and regular burgers, but wow they were so yummy! They had the best ice cream and we let Kabree and Keagan try the kiddy cones!
After dinner we headed to our Motel; yes I said Motel, it was slim pickings for lodging! Heather, Zach and I took Hanna, Justice, Kabree and Keagan swimming for a bit before hitting the sack!
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