Little Getaway to the Hills!

We just had a great weekend in Rapid City-the purpose was to go down for Alexis’s wedding. She had a beautiful ceremony and it was an honor to be part of her day. She looked beautiful and the day was wonderful! We are excited to see how the photos turned out! We figured that we have 7 weddings to go to (at least) before ours so we are watching and getting ideas from others that we think are cute. I do have to admit, Dan cleans up pretty well so I’m very excited to see him in a tux!

We decided to stay a long a little longer to enjoy each other and the hills. We even had a little time to windowshop and play a bit!

Elvis even had an eventful weekend. We took him with us to Rapid and dropped him off at Safe Haven Pet Resort. He spent a couple days hanging out in doggie daycare-they told us he was really well behaved when we picked him up. Dan and I had a pretty good laugh on the last day though. We picked him up and decided to go down to Bear Country with him. On the corner of Mount Rushmore Drive and Main, there is a statue of President Taft bent over. Elvis took one look at him and growled! Good thing that bronze statue didn’t give us a second look-otherwise Elvis would have taken him out!

One of the best things that we did this weekend, besides eating at IHOP for the first time, was go to Bear Country. It was definitely worth the time and money to go and visit. Elvis really enjoyed it; he was staring the bears down and keeping his eye on all 180 of them! He was tough until he got nose to nose with the bronze statue—not so tough then! We loved the bear cubs…they were SO cute!

After leaving Bear Country, we took a drive to the Faces and through the hills on the way back home. It was nice to drive talk and see scenery that we are not used to at home! One thing that would have made the day is if the weather would have been decent!