Friday 7/04/08 - Today we headed from Hill City to Brookings, South Dakota. We got an early start for the 350 mile drive to see our friends Bob and Donna Burke. We were on the road by 7am. We took a different route than earlier planned, so I missed seeing the famous and renowned Corn Palace in Mitchell, S.D. Instead we stopped in De Smet, SD to see one of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s home. She’s the one who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series.
It was so good to see Bob, Donna and to meet their two kids Brandy and Darin. Lynn and I haven’t seen them for many years so we had a good time talking about the good old days. Ed and Darin had a good time shooting off bottle rockets in their 13 acre back yard. After a South Dakota steak dinner, we went to Brookings to see their 4th of July fireworks. This was a treat since we had missed the ones at Mt. Rushmore. I’m sure they were pretty comparable, Ha, Ha. We just imagined the heads of the four presidents in the background.
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