How did I not know that our country is so beautiful? The badlands are incredible!!!! We’re making progress, but we’ve got hours and hours to go before we arrive home. My car-mates for this last leg of our journey are the best of buds,  cheap entertainment, and they happen to adore one another.  Makes the long hours fly by.

We’ve stopped at Chico again to soak away our worries and prepare for the second half of driving, driving, driving. Maggie accidentally took a tumble a couple days ago off the stairs of my grandmother’s schoolhouse. It was more traumatizing for me than her, but the scrape on her nose is a reminder of the scary moment. Boo.

Chico is full to the brim of families getting ready to celebrate the holiday weekend and we’re lucky enough to have a bed to sleep in tonight…..all three of us in one bed. Ha!! I’m pretty sure my mom and I won’t be taking up as much real estate as the little shrimp between us, but I secretly like the idea of us smooshed together, if just for one night.

After soaking for a few hours today we wandered the property: viewing the horses, avoiding the tumbleweeds and enjoying the lawn area as Maggie poked us with some broken sticks. My mom has taught Mags to smell flowers and now she insists on smelling anything that resembles a flower, which means we have to stop and smell the ‘roses’ frequently.

(On a total side note, the guy from Desperate Housewives is here too!!)

4 Gen ND Trip , doing stuff , family , Grandparents , MMM