Our Big Summer Trip

The Mathews family reunion was in Wyoming this year so we decided to turn a 3 day reunion in to a 2 week trip. We flew into Billings Montana, picked up Big B's brother and made our way to Rapid City, South Dakota before heading to the reunion in Sheridan Wyoming. Stay tuned this will take several posts.

In Rapid City we went to the Natural History Museum and the kids got really into it. A can read so well now that she took the boys around and they learned all sorts of things.
This is the whole fam in front of Stan, the largest dinosaur skeleton of a t-rex found in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

After we picked up Big B's brother in Billings we stopped at Custer's Last Stand Monument. The kids and I learned all about this before we left on the trip so it made it more interesting when we got there. Outside the museum D went and stood right next to her uncle. I thought it was the cutest thing. She was probably trying to get into the shade, it was pretty hot.

If you look in the back you see a black tomb stone. That's Custer's. The others are soldiers that fought with him. (p.s the shirt A is wearing she made in her sewing class right before we left.)

Here's the clan standing in front of the official monument. You know your getting old when you really enjoy things like this and you remind yourself of your parents. But it was interesting and a least the kids got into some of it as well.