Day 26, August 1st
Today we slept in for the first time in days. No alarms, no wake up calls. Lynnae and I woke up around 8:15AM and Louie woke up around 8:45AM. We took our showers and went to search out breakfast. We missed the continental breakfast here at the hotel, so we decided on Denny’s instead.
After breakfast, we went on toward Costco to get replacement tires for the rear of the Buick. Before we got there, my tire guy called to advise I should go to a Les Schwab instead because that’s where the tires came from originally and should still be under warranty.
It only took ½ hour to get them changed out. What a difference it makes to have all new tires. I was also noticing that we’ve gone over 3000 miles since our oil change in Amarillo. I won’t be getting that done here. I think we can make it home from here.
After our visit to Les Schwab, we drove about 15 minutes northward to Silverwood Theme Park. It was turning out to be a nice day weather-wise. Mostly cloudy, with a light breeze. We bought our two-day passes and entered the “amusement” side of the park. Tomorrow we will take in the water park side of Silverwood.
We started off with easy rides. Louie and Lynnae rode the log flume, and then we all rode on the Tilt-a-Whirl. We moved on to a few more rides, then lunch. After that, the big roller coasters…each had a wait time of at least 30 minutes. I was little worn out after all that (that being continuous screaming for the length of each ride), so I parked myself on a bench while they discovered an attraction called “BattleZone”. There are three floating “tanks” that shoot rubber balls and water. Around the outside of the water area are cannons to shoot more rubber balls at the tanks as well as other objects. Louie and Lynnae went back twice to get in the tanks and do their damage. I think they had the most fun doing this.
Our last ride of the day was the carousel. As we walked toward it, the rain started. The wind had been increasing all day, and was very gusty by the end of the day. By the time the ride was over, it was just a few drops. We walked to our car and went in search of Subway. After getting our subs and free cookies, we headed back to our hotel room. As we ate our subs, we recapped the day and planned what to do tomorrow. We are hoping it won’t rain again and that it might be a little warmer. Louie and Lynnae took showers to warm up and to get all the grime off them from BattleZone. They settled down by playing their Playstation DS games and I spent time working on our blogs. I’m a few days behind, and now we can’t access the Internet at this hotel. So tomorrow I will be searching out some free wi-fi to get this posted.Very tired tonight and looking forward to sleeping in a bit again tomorrow. Sunday we will be driving home, and I am trying to mentally gear up for that as well. At least now I know I have 4 good tires to get home on!
Tags: Travel
Lisa
WOW! I had no idea ya’ll were going to take such a long trip. We have also been to Wall, Badlands, Rushmore, Strugis and loved Devil’s Tower. Deadwood is a great place as well. We enjoyed the bus tour and the ride to Mount Mariah Cemetary. Gambling in the old buildings made us feel like Wild Bill was about to walk through the door any minute. We were also there about a week before the Bikers landed in Sturgis. That was when we first learned about it’s biker history. Did you get to see Crazy Horse while near Rapid City? It was really close to Custer State Park. We’ve been there a couple of times. It’s all such beautiful country. Thanks for letting us be a part of your journey. It’s brought back a lot of good memories for me.
Dreaded Sunday! Going back home will be exciting & sad all at once! I know you guys have made memories you will cherish forever.