This summer our Boy Scout Troop went to South Dakota for their summer camp. I packed the car and made a super quick trip to the southeast corner of South Dakota to see the area around where the boys were camping with another Scout Mom! We stopped at the Omaha Zoo on the way up (the Lied Jungle, Desert Dome and aquarium are still my favorites), stayed in a cute campground cabin (the moms, not the Scouts), visited Gavin’s Point Dam (between Lewis and Clark Lake where the younger boys stayed at base camp and the Missouri River that the older boys canoed down for 53 miles), stopped at Spirit Mound Historic Prairie (I really enjoyed the hike up and all the historical bits along the trail, I even saw a glacial boulder nicely marked so I would know what it was. I’m glad we stopped but would have been less than happy with my guide if I’d have hiked the 9 miles from the river to see it like Lewis and Clark did in August of 1804) and then drove about an hour further north to poke around Falls Park (truly beautiful and situated near downtown Sioux Falls).
Our golden retriever, Kaylee, came along for this trip too. She’s a great traveler and the boys seem to like having her along. Something about this trip was too much for her though, so she spent a good chunk of our night in the cabin trying not to upchuck all over everything. Thankfully my travelling buddy had some chewable Pepto Bismol packed and after some google-fu we determined it was worth a try. She was pretty much back to normal the next day.
