Another busy day! We drove thru the town of Deadwood, South Dakota (just like the movie). Cute town with lots of casinos. They opened the casinos after they had some bad fires in order to pay to rebuild the town. Their revenues from the casinos far exceeded their expectations.

After Deadwood we found a neat place called Trout Haven. They have a few trout ponds where you can fish and then you can either have the fish packed up to go or they will cook it for you at the cafe. We had promised Patrick to go fishing (it’s the one thing he wanted to do other than camping) and he was quite excited. We had fun catching 4 fish and then had them for lunch at the cafe with fries and coleslaw. The fish were quite tasty, even Nolan enjoyed it.

Our final excursion for the day was Mt Rushmore. It was quite a site to see. It seemed almost surreal. Patrick had almost fell asleep on the drive there. I think he was pooped from fishing. But we managed to keep him awake and he thought the “faces on the rocks” were pretty cool. I also liked the little walkway with the flags. We bought souveniers and then headed out. We ended up staying about 200 miles from Sioux Falls.