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| At the falls. |
Today we hung out with Mal and Natalie and distracted Nicholas from his work. Mal took us to see downtown Sioux Falls and also the town’s namesake falls. They were pretty cool, with quite a bit of water cascading down lots and lots of layers of rocks. We took some photos, but it was already pretty hot for 10.30am!! Lucky we went down reasonably early! Then we went for our first trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond to get a cupholder just like the one I’d been eyeing up in the Lease’s BMW. Little Natalie got a little grumpy as it was her naptime and then she wanted to play ‘house’ in her special corner of the shop where the pizza cutting stones are, but we had to go. After kicking her door for a few minutes, she was fast asleep! I don’t know if she noticed the crazy lady who drove right behind us as Mal was carefully and slowly backing out of our parking space. Drivers are crazy in Sioux Falls too!
Then we went back to the Lease’s house where we collected our things and bid them a sad farewell. It would have been lovely to stay another night as they had offered, but we needed to get going on our way to Canada. It was a fun, if short, stay! Nicholas said Casey Anthony got 4 years, but because she’s already served 3 and been ‘good’ she could be out in a few weeks. Might be back in a couple of months’ time, we shall see – trouble has followed her quite a lot in her short life!
More epic and slightly boring driving. We went past random towns with strange names like ‘Welcome’ (not to the place, it was its name!) and ‘Le Center’ and ‘Blue Earth’ (boasting a 60 foot tall green man statue). So strange. Both South Dakota AND Minnesota are guilty of the strange names of places phenomena! So we drove from Sioux Falls all the way through the brilliantly green cornfields of I-90 to just past Albert Lea. Then we turned onto the I-35 and joined all the amazing traffic on the way to Minneapolis/St Paul. Nearly wiped out a black sportscar when we gave way to merging traffic by changing into the left lane. He couldn’t wait for us to pull back across and overtook us on the right side, just as Will was changing lanes. Looking back, maybe I shouldn’t have told Will not to go and we could have wiped him out, bastard!
We stopped somewhere random to refuel along way – cheapest yet! $3.44.9. Macca’s was naughty, but good too J. And besides, Will needed the caffeine to stay awake while driving hehe.
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| The Lease's house - I want that one! Gorgeous! |
My epically awesome effort at navigation paid off and we found the Lebanon Hills Park Campground in Eagen, outside of Minneapolis. I was using a map off our RV campground application that didn’t tell me any street names except the highways, one avenue and our destination address. So off the I-35 E at the exit after Cedar Avenue and then a random number of lights off the right-hand turn and eventually we found ourselves on the right one – Johnny Cake Ridge Road. Told you there are some random place names around here! I don’t think I’ve ever even had a Johnny Cake!! Checked into our camping spot (disabled – still appropriate!) after I melted in the car while Will sorted out the payment/paperwork. $45 for two nights, the first one with power, but no water or internet and the second night ‘primitive’ with no power either – but if something came up the next day, we’d get that one!! It was a really nice campground with lots of huge trees separating us from the campers next door. Beautiful, considering it’s not far from a huge city. Well, two actually, because Minneapolis and St Paul are the ‘Twin Cities’ and are super close to each other, though they’re cities in their own right. St Paul is the capital of Minnesota I think.
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