9-4-10

• Sarah and April building their tent
• Amy is ready for what the weekend holds
• Sarah Always happy to take a picture
• Dan got his butt kicked with Rio
• Brian's plan for the weekend
• The return of Head
• Paula thinking about vodka
• April enjoying her first time
• VP of GJGC
• Very happy Dan
• Sudoku queen
• She must not have expected this
• Not sure what happened here
• Awesome picture of Nate and
• Macie's first Michigan trip
• Let the fun begin
• Me and Nate in the lake
• Starting to wake up
• Amy, Mother, and Paula
• Dad on Macie duty
• Mother's turn
• April enjoying the lake
• Andrew in the raft
• Macie napping by the lake
• Ame dawg bazillionaire
• Lee tubing
• Party at Osterhout
• Phil's turn for the raft
• Dad playing with Nate
• Heading back to the house
• I'm hoping blue moon
• Dan and Dad eating banana splits
• Closeup of Dan's
• Big game of Mexican
• Someone is paying attention
• What a happy group
• An awesome fire
• I thought you're supposed to ride it, not push it
• The start of a beautiful thing
• Everybody else...away from Dan
• Mark getting some much-needed sun

8-30-10   

• Angela ready for Bon Jovi
• A little food to absorb the alcohol to be drunk later
• Brian
• Myself
• BMD
• Very happy Jen
• What a trio
• Me and Jenn
• This is quite the pig to roast
• Me and Brian at the roast.
• ME and Jenn
• Amy's new match.com picture
• Luke sitting by his fire
• Jenn deep in thought
• Luke was up pretty late with the Legos
• Hera up close
• The entrance to the renaissance fair
• There were camel rides
• Camel toe
• Food time
• Dan offering his meat
• Brian and Luke by Dr. Kaboom's show
• Tony, Luke, and a camel jockey
• Amy, Luke, and Paula aboard the camel
• One more
• Amy and Paula
• Tony getting waxed
• Some people get dressed up pretty well (possibly employees)
• Wonder if they float?
• Amy teaching Luke the way of the Renaissance
• Now with Paula
• Not sure how he pulled this off
• Great shirt!
• Brian found a couple
• Meow??
• Another great shirt
• Dan showing off his muscles
• Luke's turn
• Paula, Amy, and some tongue
• Getting ready for the bungee/trampoline
• Amy getting strapped in
• There she goes
• Probably peeing...
• Upside down
• Luke waiting patiently for his turn
• Dan and April
• Here goes Luke
• Got some good air here
• Luke's personalized sword
• Handed down to him
• Brian and a llama
• Amy and Paula
• Brian, Paula, and Luke
• Phil, a llama, and a couple disgusted bystanders
• Luke and some renaissance creatures

8-23-10    (Day 5 - the rest)

• We made it to Wall Drug
• Lots of shops in there
• The exterior
• One of the Badlands viewpoints
• Dan enjoyed the scenery
• Some interesting formations
• Searching for Bear Grylls
• Not much of this in Illinois
• More of the same...yet so different
• They say it was formed millions of years ago
• Wouldn't wanna fall down there
• (Insert your own Badlands fact here.)
• On there way to Sturgis presumably
• From what I saw, hope to never go here again
• I think we missed one of these earlier
• The Buick had a rough ride
• Back to reality...
• Amber waiting for the end
• She loves me
• The grocery store
• A not-so-good-looking buffalo
• Through binoculars from our hotel
• Nice group pose minus me
• Getting close to sunset
• Beautiful sunset
• Another one
• Good night, Care
• Surprise surprise
• Comfy for the ride home
• Happy to head home
• Wasn't as scenic as we hoped for the detour
• Certainly didn't see much special the way we went
• This sign was tough to get to
• Some of downtown Minneapolis before KFC
• Worst case scenario
• A close second
• The truth according to Dan
• A little revenge

8-18-10    (Day 5 - Dan's Objective Presidential Tour)

• Andrew Jackson: Great man; killed savage redskin Indians
• JFK: Terrible Democrat; Socialist; wasn't man enough to finish presidency
• Van Buren: rode Jackson's coattails to presidency; failure
• Taft: Fattest president
• LBJ: Great Society sucked; civil rights movement sucked;  Vietnam was fun
• John Quincy Adams: Corrupt bargain and robbed great man Jackson of presidency
• Monroe: Monroe Doctrine kept foreigners out of my country
• HW Bush: great president; bombed Iraq
• John Adams: fat Federalist
• Amusing business sign
• Reagan: great Communist defeater
• Andrew Johnson: almost thrown out of office for sucking
• Jimmy Carter: south side dirt pussy backed down to the Iranians and a good friend of mine
• Washington: Killed the French, British, and started my country
• Thomas Jefferson: greatest president; anti-Federalist and anti-big government, the way I like it
• Ford: liked dogs, therefore I hate him
• Madison: small person, beat up the British
• Truman: nuked the g**ks
• William Henry Harrison: wasn't man enough for presidency
• John Tyler: did nothing but play with his instrument
• Zachary Taylor: killed many w*tbacks and helped steal California for America
• Fillmore: lazy president; did nothing else
• Woodrow Wilson: cool first name; defeated the Central Powers; failed to get us in the League of nations
• Warren G. Harding: good rapper; besides that, terrible president
• Lincoln: tall; freed my people...what a mistake
• Buchanan: terrible Southern man, the south deserved to lose the war
• Teddy Roosevelt: killed animal; killed the w*tback Spanish with his Rough Riders, good President
• Franklin Pierce: lonely, forgotten man
• Cleveland: president twice, got lucky; did nothing both times
• Rutherford B. Hayes: corrupt deal; ended Reconstruction dooming blacks
• Ulysses S. Grant: defeated the racist South; unified my country; great man
• FDR: Socialist; terrible man but helped in defeating the Japs and Krauts
• Hoover: built Hoover Dam; led us into depression
• Coolidge: hillbilly...that's all
• Eisenhower: great president, great general; brought America back to the tradition of male dominance
• Polk: a fighter, killed the Mexicans; a great man
• Nixon: Tricky Dicky; didn't really do anything wrong

8-12-10 (Day 4)

• This is where it started
• Breakfast time...pretty gross
• Not quite the Trojan
• Long awaited :-)
• Next...
• Where's the whip?
• Perfect fit
• Mt. Rushmore well zoomed
• From a little distance
• Care in the foreground
• Home sweet home
• Surprised he didn't ignite it
• What the finished product was supposed to look like
• All-day tour necessity
• Where's Obama?
• Enjoying the ride
• Pretty cool through the tiny tunnel
• Cool rock formations
• Some more
• Needle's Eye
• Amber the adventurer
• The tunnel was a traffic bottleneck
• Sylvan Lake
• Crazy Horse
• Dan by it...a mile or so away
• Zoomed in to see workers
• Buffalo head
• The final product and current in the background
• Final product overlaying the current
• On the way back
• Getting ready for dinner
• Me and Care
• The show's emcee
• Guitarist
• The rest of the band
• The yodeler
• Not often you see an Elvis impersonator in overalls
• Care and the singer
• Dan had a rough game of drunk driver
• Care about to go to sleep
• Amber resurrected
• Good morning
• Amber excited for Dan's objective presidential tour

8-10-10 (Day 3)

• Dan's tour of Mt. Moriah Cemetery
• Care and Amber at the Cemetery Gates
• Wild Bill's grave
• Calamity Jane's grave
• 750 foot grade
• Founder of Deadwood
• Where Wild Bill was killed
• Lunch at Mustang Sally's
• We're a happy bunch
• Care
• Next stop
• Rocky Mountain Elk at Bear Country
• Right outside the car
• Running along the road
• Reindeer in the road
• Baby big horn sheep ??
• Full grown
• Dall sheep
• It is Bear Country
• Walking down the road
• Up close
• Mountain lion sleeping
• A road we didn't follow
• The playplace
• Different color
• On to the buffalo
• Baby buffalo
• Bunch of asses
• Dan and Dennis, the founder of Bear Country
• A bear playing with a ball
• Porcupine
• Beaver
• Baby bears
• Care bear
• Had to stop for blizzards after
• Our room wasn't ready, so we stopped for martinis at the bar
• The four of us
• Care on the laptop
• Dan and Amber
• Time to drink...
• Everybody getting ready for the big tour

8-9-10 (Day 2)

• Good morning, Care
• Loading and unloading every day sucked
• Some scenery on the way to Jewel Cave
• They are excited
• At the cave site
• From the cliff above the cave
• to the left
• Care and Dan getting ready for the lantern tour
• The entrance
• Care, Amber, and Ranger Mitch
• Going down...
• Way down
• The viewpoint in Wyoming
• The other direction
• Dan liked it
• Viewpoint Info
• interesting landform
• Care and Amber a few miles from Devil's Tower
• Devil's Tower from a distance
• There were quite a few prairie dogs
• Up close
• Some knucklehead climbing it
• Another scenic view from Devil's Tower
• i found this one amusing
• Amber wanted to climb it
• Buffalo burger
• One last Wyoming scene shot
• Good bye, Wyoming
• Me too
• Care and Amber
• Hello, Montana
• Me and Dan
• Care and Amber
• Watch out for oncoming traffic
• Beautiful Montana scenery
• We made it to Deadwood
• Amber
• Predator props...it was the celebrity hotel
• Neil Young guitar
• Elvis suit
• Clapton and the Eagles
• Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart
• Sheryl Crow, The Police, Winona Judd
• Garth Brooks
• T2
• Forrest Gump
• James Bond
• Evel Knievel
• Mash
• More Evel Knievel
• 2 Fast 2 Furious
• The Beatles
• Shawshank Redemption
• Rail gun from Eraser
• Lots of gambling in Deadwood
• Is this good?
• Dan and Care at Miner's Den Steakhouse
• Me and Amber
• We're classy
• Amber, Dan, Care, and a buffalo
• Ready to party
• Amber too
• Me and Amber...a little later
• drunk and/or sleepy
• Dan wrestling a beer box
• The box may have won

8-2-10

• Brian jamming before Iron Maiden
• Enjoying the outside
• Jenn came to enjoy the fun
• Poor Monica had to drive us
• On a serious note...
• Dan after barely surviving the Dells
• Oops...
• Brian ready for Michigan
• No hat now
• Amber ready for the roadtrip
• Very diverse hat
• Kevin was part of our going away party
• The rest of the party
• Obviously before we even got out of the driveway
• A little later on the road
• Dan was a trooper all night
• Admiring a statue in Sioux Falls
• The Falls from a distance
• A bit closer
• Amber walking the plank
• Care and her pheasant hat
• Me and Amber
• Ice cream time
• Almond Joy for Care
• Superman mixed with Dan's
• Downstream from the falls
• Dan and a buffalo status
• Care and Amber's turn to ride it
• rest stop
• The Corn Palace in Mitchell
• Dan and a local
• A little fuzzy...dang it
• Dan expressing his thoughts about the Natives
• Amber fit right in here
• Back on the road
• Care enjoying the rest of the ride to Rapid City
• Finally something to see outside after like 14 hours
• Not quite the Black Hills
• This was a lot of the scenery
• Outskirts of the Badlands
• More of the Badlands
• Something different at least
• More scenery
• We made it to Rapid City after 17 hours of Dan driving through a lot of stormy weather in the night
• Time to relax a little in the pool
• Dan looks good after being up all night and driving 17 hours
• Care ready for the pool
• The four of us
• Not sure what this means
• Amber after a little Crystal Light
• Dan with a similar look to end the "first" night

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