We decided to head back to The Bunnery again for breakfast, this time for homemade granola...yum. From there, we were ready for our 7.5 hour drive to Rapid City, SD. Our route took us back through Grand Teton National Park, which was nice for more bison sightings, but left us with a fairly low speed limit and slow park traffic. We finally made it out of the park only to hit crazy snow...in May...who knew? It didn't take long to catch up with some traffic and we were stuck at a speed of less than 40 - at that rate it would take twice as long to get to Rapid City. As we kept going, the weather just seemed to get worse...icy, snowy, rainy and foggy. The roads were poorly plowed and the visibility just stunk. After about 2.5 hours, we decided to call it a day in good old Riverton, WY. The weather was so bad that the first hotel we tried was sold out for the night...on to the Rodeway Inn...free internet and free breakfast. We checked in and Andy headed out to find beer and Dominos...so sad, but so true. We spent the rest of the night watching television channels go in and out of service and hoped we would be able to finally move on the next morning.
Well, we got up today and decided we had to give it a try. The weather wasn't too much better for the most part, but the roads were clearer and it was more rain than snow. We had canceled our Rapid City room the night before, so we stopped in Casper, WY at their Starbuck's to take advantage of what we thought would be free wi-fi to re-book our room (very strange system they have, but we made it work.) Finally, around 4:30, we pulled in to our LQ...oddly attached to an indoor water park, attached to another hotel...okay. It smells like chlorine, but we got a free room upgrade to a king suite, so who can complain? We used a gift card we had to enjoy almost-free Ruby Tuesday dinner and then hit up the local Carmike 10 theater for some Iron Man 2 (South Dakota should be ashamed of it's movie prices...almost as much as Long Island...but the movie was really good.)
Now, we're back in the room trying to straighten out the rest of our trip and getting ready to see Mount Rushmore tomorrow!
I find it very ironic that after I had to basically force you to watch Iron Man, you have now seen IM2 before me, while on vacation.
ReplyDeleteIM was a great movie... and the combination of nothing to do in Rapid City, South Dakota along with Scarlett Johansson made it a no-brainer.
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