Friday, July 2: Rapid City, SD to Crystal, MN
Well, our Black Hills trip has (sadly) nearly come to an end. Today is all travel back home. The Grand Gateway Hotel, unfortunately, didn't offer breakfast, BUT it was attached to a Perkins Restaurant. We chowed down and then headed on the road. We stopped twice - once for a bathroom break and the other for bathroom & gas. Leaving at 9am MDT, we got back just before 7pm CDT, so it was a 9 hour trip. We each took turns driving (except Nathan!) throughout the trip. Karen taught Nathan how to do Sodoku puzzles and Dustin and Nathan played some Rock-Paper-Scissors (then we amped it up and played Rock-Paper-Scissors Poker, using fake money we kept track of in our head!)
As for our license plate game, we all made a guess early in the trip as to how many different states we'd see. The winner got $1 from each of the losers. Here were our guesses:
Dustin - 30
Karen - 33
Diane - 38
Nathan - 39
The final number of states observed:
47
Forty-seven!!! Nathan won! The states we did not see on the trip were:
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
West Virginia
We grilled burgers and brats after we got home and declared the official end to our vacation. :( Diane and Nathan stayed until Sunday afternoon. It was an awesome vacation and there is so very little that we would probably do differently. We saw so much in so little time, but we didn't over do it.
Thanks for all who have been reading these posts - each day took longer to put together than I figured, but it's been fun to do. I can't believe it's been 4 weeks since we got back! I have a couple other posts that are waiting to be done, so check back soon!
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