Our flight was scheduled to leave at 5:45 AM so we were in for an early start to our day! We drove down the day before to stay at my parents so we could be closer to the airport. Mark and I got up at 3:15 AM and got ready and the car loaded. We …
NORTH DAKOTA
Our 2016 Family Vacation was amazing – as they ALL are! I mean that completely honestly. It is no secret that these trips are one of my favorite tradition and North Dakota was truly good to us. To catch all of the highlights of the trip…check out these posts! Journey to Medora Theodore Roosevelt National …
The Journey Home
We traveled home from our great family trip! I cannot tell you how much Mark and I love these family trips. We look forward to them so much and see such a high value in them. We talked this trip, as I think we have talked every trip, about how much we hope our kiddos …
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
We then left the wonderful state of North Dakota and headed to Montana. This was our cheat on our trip and we went to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. We knew that we will most likely be spending our Montana trip on the western side and so thought this would be a good opportunity to …
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
ALMOST every day of our trip I have thought, “today should be a pretty relaxed day” and even though we aren’t stressing or anything, I have been amazed at how much we have seemed to do throughout the day. We have taken longer to do the things I have planned {and not that that is …
Theodore Roosevelt National Park – North Unit
We then started making our trek north west. Once we learned that we would be driving right past the entrance to the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park {we had just done the south unit before} Mark KNEW he would regret it if we didn’t go in! So we hopped in and did the …
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
After another really chilly lunch we headed over to the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site {wow…that’s a mouthful!}. This was definitely a highlight. We watched a really interesting video about what life was like for the three different tribes that made up the Knife River Indian Villages. They had a lot of hands-on …
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center & Fort Mandan
Day 4 was another rainy full day! We left the great city of Bismarck and headed north to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. It was a museum that focused on the winter that Lewis and Clark and their expedition stayed in the area. It was really interesting and I definitely came away learning a …
Lewis and Clark Riverboat Cruise
The finale of our day was going on our Lewis and Clark Riverboat Cruise. I had never been on a boat like that before and it was really neat. We had been worried all day that it was going to get cancelled due to the weather so it was yet another tender mercy for us. …
Bismarck North Dakota Temple
After we drove the Enchanted Highway, we headed to Bismarck! It continued to rain pretty hard even until we got into the city but as soon as we pulled in front of the temple it stopped. It’s amazing the tender mercies that happen. We hopped out of the car and were able to walk around …