Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Gooder to Badder to Worser.

So here's my weekend Recap... Hold on. Its quite large.

Bear with me.

*sigh*

Thrusday morning Brad started clipping his sisters calves @ 7:30 AM....
                 Well, he was SUPPOSED to, but the calves weren't ready.

So he started on a few of them at 9:00, which put him behind by 1.5 hrs,  but then there were no other calves ready to be clipped so we moved on to the next place.

Hibma's.

Here is where alot of the time was spent for the day.

A guy had told Brad he'd drop his cattle off here, they would be washed and ready to go.
           Needless to say that after a 1 hr drive in a trailer, the 7 head were all covered in poop and had to be RE washed and RE dried before Brad could get anywhere with the clipping. This added another 1 hour to our delay time for clipping. We are now up to 2.5 hrs.

8 hours later... Brad finally moves on to our 3rd destination.

De Haan's.

Again, much time was spent here clipping there numerous head for the open show on Saturday, which Brad and I would be missing for the first year in who knows how long...

Any who.

We got done there and headed back to his Dad's house where the calves were all released and out in the yard. Brad and I trudge out there at  2:00 AM and catch all the little stinkin' rug rats and get them clipped out.

By now this chicka is shot and ready for bed. 3:30 AM. Deedless to say if we hadn't had all the "delays", we would have been done at 1:00 AM, but with Brad's luck I knew it would go this way. I also was dreading the 6:30 alarm I had set so that we could leave for the Black Hills bright and early. Needless to say... That DID NOT happen! lol.

Friday Morning- we rolled outta' bed about 9:00 and Hit to Road to Rock Rapids. We picked up some promotioal meat for the butcher shop there and had to deliver it to a town on our way out to Rapid City. 10:30 AM we are finally on the road and ready to go.

The South Dakota drive was so boring. But I definately had some entertaining fun via my camera...





We drop off the first load of meat- everything goes well. We get about an hour from Rapid City and the jeep starts making a noise. Brad decided it wasn't so important and he'd look at it at the campground which was a mere 25 miles away.

We arrived at the Camp ground and we let the jeep cool off. The Campground was really cool. It was in the trees and stuff and there were rattle snakes in the grass- you could here them. The boys even caught one and chopped its head off. It was interesting.



We ate a delicious supper at the campground. Grilled PorkChops, Fried Potatoes, and Salads. Yum.

After supper we all headed to Mt. Rushmore to see the light show. Fantab. That was pretty cool to see.



Brad and I then returned to our cabin afterwards, and rested up for a long Saturday.



Saturday- we ate breakfast. 99 cent all you can eat pancakes! OMG. DELICIOUS! Then we visited "Ft. Hayes" which is the video set for "Dances with Wolves". That was pretty cool and exciting too. We took lots of pictures and had lots of fun.



After breakfast we went back to the campground for a little bit to let everyone's breakfast settle and for some people to change clothes to go for a drive. My sister caught a "smoothe green snake" (thats really the kind, I googled it on my Blackberry!) It was so cool!



After that a few of us headed off to Custer State Park, we rode along Needles Highway, and did the Wildlife Loop, and all that fun jaz. It was lots of fun. We saw antelope, deer, prairie dogs, wild mules, and of course... da da da... Buffalo. TONS and tons and TONS of buffalo.







After we were done with that we rushed on back to the campground where everyone was ready to leave for my moms wedding. Needless to say... I managed to 1. change into a dress. 2. straighten my hair. 3. do my make up. 4. shave my legs. and 5. brush my teeth in a matter of 13 minutes. RECORD TIMING. BOO YEAH.

We headed of to the wedding, which was a pretty good time. The food was delish, and we took a little hike with the whole groop down a path next to a water stream and stuff. It was pretty cool.



After the celebration was done was when the "badder" comes into effect. My moms friend that was at the wedding got a little mad at Brad and I for locking her out of the cabin. Oops. Needless to say, I really don't feel all that bad. She treated me like poo, she deserved it! (how bad am I for saying that?) Anywho- Brad and I moved our stuff outta our Cabin and we stayed on a huge air mattress in my Aunt and Uncles camper.

I slept like a rock star. Ugh. I was so exhausted.

Sunday morning- Brad woke up and ran to Wal-Mart to get new stuff for my jeep. He ended up changing some gear oil or something like that, hopping that was the problem.



It diffinately helped the noise we had been hearing, so we decided we were good to go home.

We hit Bear Country USA on our way out of town.... the jeep ended up over heating, and loosing oil pressure, and AC all while parked in the middle of a Timberwolf and Black Bear pen.
Handy.
We figured out that was just because we had been sitting there for forever because people were holding up traffic.
Well, we made it through eventually and headed on our way.



The ride went well. The noise had become less prominent. Until we hit Sioux Falls. 1 hour from home and the jeep started making this aweful grinding noise.

Ugh.

Now What?!?!

Anywho. We made it to Brad's parents house safe and sound and slept the night away.

Monday Morning-

7:30 Brad Brings Jeep into Shop.
8:00 Jeep starts getting fixed on.
9:00 Brad gets call from friend.
10:30 Brad and Roz go to shop to talk to friend.
11:00 Brad and Roz find out it will take $1,000 + to fix everything that was wrong.
12:30 Brad and Roz start looking for an alternate way to get home to Creston.
4:15 Brad and Roz climb into an Old Buick Le Sabre.

Man o Man did we feel like we were the Mafia's grandparents. Geeze. lol.

Well. We made it home safe and sound. And thats all that matters.

But our weekend went from good, to bad, to worse.

What a Typical Punt Weekend!

<3 Roz

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