The end of our vacation-Day 17-20

Well, here is the end of our vacation, finally!

On Day 17, we left Dave's parent's house at about 10:00 am. It seemed on this whole trip, that no matter what time we woke up, we couldn't get in the truck and on the road until 10. We were headed for Medora, ND. I was prepared for it to be a very boring trip, but it was actually very beautiful. I think some believe farm country to be very boring, but its so pretty. I prob. think that because I didn't grow up in the country. I grew up on the coast, both east and west.

We stopped at the Jamestown rest area for a picnic. It was so nice there. The view was great. That's where we got a great pic. of us all together. Thank goodness I have a tripod. I just may use that pic. for our x-mas card.

After lunch and before we got to Theodore Roosevelt State Park, we hit one doosey of a thunder storm. I tried to film it on the camcorder, but it seemed lightning only struck where I wasn't pointing the camera. There were strikes so close our radio would cut out. I haven't been in a storm like that since we lived in Florida. It was great! Amanda wasn't even very scared. I think that's because she couldn't really hear the thunder.

When we got to Medora, we made a quick, light dinner and ate at the old town playground. It was great! A kids dream playground. We spent alot of time there. The campground we stayed at had live music. It was old timers playing country. Very nice. We also had a little visitor. A friendly little bunny. He wouldn't let us pet him but he let me get a good pic. of him. We had a great view of the mountains out the back of our camper. I really liked it there.

On day 18 we headed for Greycliff, MT. The driving was pretty uneventful. We stayed at the Big Timber KOA. Before we checked in, we visited a prairie dog town. That was so cute! They were all over the place and when we rolled down our windows we could hear them barking. The campground wasn't anything special, but they had a bouncing pillow. It was HUGE, and so much fun. We could all go jumping at the same time. In fact, at one point there was about 15 kids jumping on it at the same time. I wish the girls had been older and able to swim, there was a neat water slide park right next door to the campgrounds. The cg had a pool, too. So, we did go swimming for a bit.

On day 19, we took off for St. Regis, MT. We didn't really do much site seeing, we just wanted to make time and get home. We drove thru Billings again and saw a park from the highway and decided to stop there for a picnic lunch. The girls really enjoyed our lunches. After all that time in car seats, I can only imagine how they liked stretching out. I feel sorry for kids nowadays. Remember when we were kids and we could get out of our seats and play in the car. Yeah, not any more.

That night we stayed at THE BEST campground I've ever stayed at. It was so clean!!!! Let me tell you, it was so clean I let my baby sit on the bathroom floor and didn't feel grossed out at all. I think that bathroom was cleaner than my own bathroom. I really, REALLY want to go back there and go hiking. The only bad thing, was that I was missing home so bad. I think if we didn't have the kids we would have just kept driving, I wanted to be home so bad. So what if it was only another 6 hours or so. :0) That evening was a scorcher. It was around 100 degrees, thank goodness for AC. We went swimming and had ice cream, then as the sun was setting we took a little hike around the CG and a bit in the forest. The camp ground is the Nugget CG in ST. Regis, MT. Check it out if you go out that way. I'm telling ya, you'll love it.

Day 20, We got home. Yay!!!!!