South Dakota - Jackalope and Jillalope went up the Hillalope

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Have you ever ridden a jackalope? Well, in South Dakota I did.  I haven't ridden a horse yet, but I've ridden a jackalope. Weird huh? Riding the jackalope was awesome. Below I will be talking about Wall Drug, Mount Rushmore, alpine slide, mountain goats, and tons of other stuff.

My favorite memory was getting lost at Wall Drug. The store was fun because we had to find our way around hundreds of people. My dad told me about the jackalope, but don't even think that a jackalope is a real animal.

Mount Rushmore was so cool. I didn't realize that Mount Rushmore has SO much detail.  Sadly my family had to double check the fourth president on Mount Rushmore. By the way the four presidents on Mount Rushmore are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson.

We also went on an alpine slide. An alpine slide is a slide on a mountain. You ride in a go kart type thing, but it doesn't have pedals. The most wonderful part about the slide was we were able to control our own speed! I thought that was REALLY fun. My dad was going as slow as a snail, even a jackalope could beat him

My animal for South Dakota was mountain goats in the Badlands. A bunch of people were just sitting there, so we thought we'd check it out, and guess what we saw...mountain goats.  We saw two mountain goats standing on a one foot wide ledge that was about fifty feet high!  If my dad was their dad, he would go crazy.

Some other things we did included eating at a Philly cheese steak restaurant called Philly Ted's. We were going to have a picnic, but it didn't work out because we couldn't find the place that we were going to have the picnic at.

Lastly, we went to an outdoor Christian concert. Addison Road is my favorite group, and they were there. They even sang my favorite song! At the concert there was a kid's area with blow up things. I went on the bungee run. I wanted to go again, but we had to get back to our hotel.

In conclusion South Dakota was the best. I'm hoping that our next state, which is North Dakota will be even better!  Maybe I can finally ride a horse and not a giant jackalope there.

The Daughter