Wirlwind tour of the Black Hills with Pam

Pam, our daughter, was picked up at the Rapid City Airport, 1 1/2 hours away from Devils Tower but her luggage missed a connection.  We had planned to tour Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park, Wind Cave NP and Spearfish Canyon anyway so we picked her luggage up the next day and just went on touring the Black Hills of South Dakata.  She spent a wirlwind 5 days with us and back she went from Rapid City, SD flying east.  We went to a rodeo in Belle Fouche, SD on Sunday meeting our Texas volunteer friends for lunch and the rodeo.  My camera this time takes good pictures but the timer is seconds from pushing the button so I missed many a shot of cowboys and sometimes I just got dirt.  The cowboy went one way and the horse or cow another and I got the center between the two!!!!!!!!!!  We did eat at Cindy B's, my favorite restaurant after visitin the coal tipple near the town.  The wirlwind visit came to an end quickly!  We will have another set of visitors, daughter Lisa and her hubby, just before we leave Devils Tower.  They plan to do the Black Hills first, and then on our days off we will all go to Yellowstone National Park in the motorhome.  They leave, we finish our schedules for one more week and we are off to South Dakota to volunteer 6 weeks at DC Booth Historic Fish Hatchery! Time is flying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The old coal tipple we visited near Aladdin.  Coal was and is mined in the area.