We went to De Smet, South Dakota today. This is the town that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about in These Happy Golden Years. We were able to tour the museum, the surveyor's house, a replica of the Brewster school that she taught in and we drove by the site of Pa's store in town. That completed our Laura Ingalls Tour.
Katie asked me what was that word for a flat area covered in grass? I said prairie, nooo valley...no. She remembered a "plain" so thanks third grade history. Then she said, " you told me to look out once in a while, I'm gonna watch my movie now k?" Sure Katie, whatever it takes. With Erik sleeping and her watching a movie we made it almost to our original destination. For some reason, maybe my not taking the exact right roads, it is taking me longer to get places than I thought it would. Plus we waited about an hour for the tour to start and then the tour itself was an hour so we didn't make it to our reserved hotel tonight. Instead we will have an extra hour drive tomorrow. However we are staying in a hotel with an indoor pool so the kids got to swim a little tonight. I am not sure I would call it a heated pool since it was pretty darn cold so mostly we splashed in the Jacuzzi. Now I have two sleeping children and I am going to watch the season premiere of Grey's on my laptop with headphones. Yay for the Internet. We watched pretty much nothing but baseball at my grandma's house. The Minnesota twins ended their losing streak yesterday. I know because first I listened to the game in the background while we played cards and then I watched it with my grandma. She needs someone to go to the stands and hold up a big sign so they will say hello to their number one fan.
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