The Presidents, Meet The Presidents
... with them (oh, continued from my last post) and we saw several others before Sarah and Jeffrey complained this Presidents Walk was boring and when would be going to Bedrock City (in Custer, South Dakota, the Flintstones theme park we planned to go to later that Wednesday). At this point it was a blessing that we arrived at The City of Presidents main office where we met Richard and he told the kids about a scavenger hunt, and their eyes lit up! So as we're going to the rest of the statues within several blocks, the kids have the guidebook to the statues open and are looking for these emblems or items that are part of the statues, such as the cigar that Ulysses S. Grant is holding in his right hand just away from his hip, or the leg brace seen at FDR's left foot.
There are ten items on that scavenger hunt and I've just given you two. So go for it!
With the kids we found all ten and I posed with all the forty-three statues (I'm guessing that a new statue will appear when Obama finishes his term of office) and some of them I really had fun with! I'm holding the other half of the "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" newspaper with Truman, holding down the parchment on which Jefferson's writing the Declaration of Independence, sitting down with my son taking in the air with Van Buren ... anyhow, we found all ten items on that scavenger hunt, and Richard told us the prize was a "Presidential Soda" and there's four flavors of them. Jeffrey offered the free one to Sarah -- the kids had been saving for months for this trip, and it's neat to see them learning the value of money. Especially since we didn't think at the time we had a lot of it ... but thanks to my very generous boss Erik, we did, even after paying ten bucks a head at Bedrock City! That was exciting and memorable too.
Strange that I haven't seen or heard anything about the theme song having its last line "you'll have a gay old time" edited for the easily offended's sake. But I digress. We got in pictures at Deadrock City (pop. 0), a Wild West town within the park that you get to by train and around different buildings in Bedrock itself and then took in the most awesome park for the kids. There's even a track on it where people can ride in a motorized car -- there are probably health regulations against propelling it with your feet -- made by the "Fred" Motor Company, and after that we took a few minutes in the gift shop and said goodbye to Tina at the front desk (who has The Flintstones running constantly behind her, which she says you learn to tune out) before we headed back to our hotel room. The following morning, last Thursday morning, we headed for home ...
... but we were able to visit my stepmother Susan (whom I hadn't seen since Dad's memorial nine years ago) who was visiting family in Lemmon, South Dakota right on the state line for a while before going to the Great River Museum, home to many dinosaur and local historical exhibits as well as Creation Research. (I've heard of Creation Science before, which speculates a much younger earth than we've been taught about in school, but I don't see how that's a heaven or hell issue. But I digress.) Then our last major stop before home in Minot was the inaugural Space Aliens restaurant in Bismarck, where in addition to playing several games we all enjoyed dinner and Martha got her loaded (VERY loaded, it's a meal in itself!) baked potato that she'd so been missing since Space Aliens closed in Minot. We got in about twenty-five minutes to midnight Thursday night, the weekend was our vacation FROM our vacation, and this week we're back to school and work.
It's a better life than I realize sometimes, David
There are ten items on that scavenger hunt and I've just given you two. So go for it!
With the kids we found all ten and I posed with all the forty-three statues (I'm guessing that a new statue will appear when Obama finishes his term of office) and some of them I really had fun with! I'm holding the other half of the "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" newspaper with Truman, holding down the parchment on which Jefferson's writing the Declaration of Independence, sitting down with my son taking in the air with Van Buren ... anyhow, we found all ten items on that scavenger hunt, and Richard told us the prize was a "Presidential Soda" and there's four flavors of them. Jeffrey offered the free one to Sarah -- the kids had been saving for months for this trip, and it's neat to see them learning the value of money. Especially since we didn't think at the time we had a lot of it ... but thanks to my very generous boss Erik, we did, even after paying ten bucks a head at Bedrock City! That was exciting and memorable too.
Strange that I haven't seen or heard anything about the theme song having its last line "you'll have a gay old time" edited for the easily offended's sake. But I digress. We got in pictures at Deadrock City (pop. 0), a Wild West town within the park that you get to by train and around different buildings in Bedrock itself and then took in the most awesome park for the kids. There's even a track on it where people can ride in a motorized car -- there are probably health regulations against propelling it with your feet -- made by the "Fred" Motor Company, and after that we took a few minutes in the gift shop and said goodbye to Tina at the front desk (who has The Flintstones running constantly behind her, which she says you learn to tune out) before we headed back to our hotel room. The following morning, last Thursday morning, we headed for home ...
... but we were able to visit my stepmother Susan (whom I hadn't seen since Dad's memorial nine years ago) who was visiting family in Lemmon, South Dakota right on the state line for a while before going to the Great River Museum, home to many dinosaur and local historical exhibits as well as Creation Research. (I've heard of Creation Science before, which speculates a much younger earth than we've been taught about in school, but I don't see how that's a heaven or hell issue. But I digress.) Then our last major stop before home in Minot was the inaugural Space Aliens restaurant in Bismarck, where in addition to playing several games we all enjoyed dinner and Martha got her loaded (VERY loaded, it's a meal in itself!) baked potato that she'd so been missing since Space Aliens closed in Minot. We got in about twenty-five minutes to midnight Thursday night, the weekend was our vacation FROM our vacation, and this week we're back to school and work.
It's a better life than I realize sometimes, David
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