A Day in Rapid City - Really cool place!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had no idea that there were so many family friendly things to do in Rapid City!  Carolyn had so much options for us - it was so cool!  We started our day at The Dinosaur Park. The kids loved this - there were stone dinosaurs high on this hill overlooking Rapid City.  The view was awesome and the dinosaurs were huge.  I guess they were representing all the dinosaurs that used to exist in Rapid City.  From here we could see everything - I think it would be a great place to visit at night again to see the lights of the city!  The kids enjoyed the climbing but it was warm up there!  :)  Next stop Storybook Land.

Storybook Land

 This was another great place in Rapid City - mostly because it was totally FREE!  Again the kids could run and play and enjoy lots of fun things - like parate ships, train, cars and visit with the princesses.  My favorite part was the free book exchange at the front - was wishing I had a book to exchange!  It is a city park so it is free and it is really fun - kind of hard to explain really!  It has structures like the pirate ship and Old Mother Hubbard's shoe, and stone characters of Ariel & the Wizard of Oz characters, tree houses for Winnie the Pooh, and girls dressed as princess to take pictures with the kids!

Chapel in the Hills - so beautiful!

After lunch we headed up the "Chapel in the Hills".  It is this Norwegian chapel built in 1960 - it is an exact replica  of thee famous Borgund stavkirke, of Laerdal, Norway.  The architecture was really cool - my favorite was the windows around the outside.  It was very small but a hot spot for pictures in Rapid City.  While we were here we heard Aaron was off work - yeah! 

Downtown Rapid City - the kids even were on TV!

We ran by the house and grabbed him and headed to their favorite ice cream spot - Armadillo's.  Marin and Maxwell were sure we would be eating armadillos - but no just yummy ice cream.  We ended up downtown at a splash pad in the middle of town - so refreshing.  While we were there the local tv station asked the kids to be on tv - of course they would love to!  Camryn even got to ask a question - pretty funny!

We rounded out the night with a trip to Outback Steakhouse compliments of some Christmas gift cards we still had - nothing like feeding 11 people completely free!  It was a great visit and so relaxing - our kids had a blast just playing and hanging out!  It was too quick for sure!