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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Custer SD Day #3

Wednesday July 22 -

Adele and Grandma went to a wild horse sanctuary. They had a bus tour and were able to see this sanctuary land that holds 750 wild horses.

Here is the website all about this Wild Horse Sanctuary: http://www.gwtc.net/~iram/

They had corralled the stallions so there wouldn't be as many offspring come next spring. The stallions were approachable through the fence. Adele wanted to share some of her goldfish snacks with them.

Grandma and Adele asked the bus tour guide if they could and he said yes. (I think the yes answer was accomplished because of the bragging that Adele volunteers for Raccoon Valley Animal Sanctuary).

After the animal Sanctuary, they went to the Mammoth Site. Camera batteries died so thank goodness modern technology has built cameras into cell phones. Very cool since Adele just saw Manny the Mammoth in Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

http://www.mammothsite.com/

Adele and Grandma arrived back to the home late after another long day of adventures.

Paul and I played some pitch with Gpa and read. I was the big winner of the day winning 3 hands and Paul and Gpa each won one. We had a relaxing uneventfilled day.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Custer SD Day #2

Adele and Grandma had a fabulous day together. Paul and I went into town for lunch and picked up a wine candleabra at a store called Walk in the Woods. It is cool. It fits into the top of a wine bottle and you can put votives or tea lights on it.

Adele and Grandma started out with a rock/gem hunt. She found a very nice large white Quartz that we will take home with us. Adele is on the hunt for Rose Quartz and Mica and White Quartz. She watched Treasure Hunter on the travel channel with Paul and ever since then she has wanted to find these stones indigenous to the region here in Custer.

After that they went to the Spirit Horse Escape. http://www.spirithorseescape.com/

Adele fed lots of animals: goats, llamas, burros, horses, and pot bellied pigs. She rode a pony named Polly.

Adele and Grandma explored a mine to eat a picnic lunch that they packed. Peanut Butter for Adele and leftover Reuben sandwich from yesterday for Grandma.

They then went to Old West Town. They spent around 3 hours there in all different rooms like the jailhouse, kitchen, schoolhouse, laundry, etc.

We didn't see them until 6:00 pm.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Custer SD Day #1

We arrived in Custer on Sunday July 19th around 4:00pm. We had a wonderful dinner of bacon wrapped buffalo burgers.

Our first full day today, Monday July 20th, we had lunch at the Alpine Inn http://www.alpineinnhillcity.com/in Hill City, SD for a girl's birthday lunch. Dorothy Redford(Birthday girl, Claire May, Zorra Mae Oaks, Sandy, and Adele.

Adele then wanted to take pictures with the buffalo around town. This is the 5th year for the Custer Stampede in which artists are commissioned to paint life size buffalo as well as table tops and other free form art. The buffalo are displayed around Custer SD and then auctioned off in Sept. http://www.custerstampede.com/

Here are pics of her with the 6 lifesize Buffalo this year up for auction:

Here is Adele with a favorite from a prior year:

One residence had a herd - 5 Buffalo:

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Adele's picture in the paper

Adele May made the Des Moines Register Tuesday June 30! There was a small feature about the Des Moines Christian School in the newspaper and Adele's photo was one that was chosen. She was eating ice cream at an ice cream social with Chloe (younger sister of Brett. Brett is in the same class as Adele).

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Another First: A Pulled Tooth

After nearly two weeks of that front tooth hanging on for dear life, Adele let daddy pull it tonight. Count down... three... two... oh wait, let's count down from five... five... four... three... tw...PULL...

Adele didn't even know it was pulled yet.

Way to go daddy... good job Adele!