Memorial Day Weekend

We spent our Memorial Day Weekend at Lake Sakakawea State Park near Garrison ND.  It was a great weekend filled with camping, fires, sight-seeing, running, jumping, biking and hiking.  Here are a group of random pictures taken throughout the weekend.

 This picture was taken within the first 30 seconds of arriving...Emma immediately loved the wide open space by the cabin.

 

 

 They are hard to see, but there were about 6 deer near the cabin when we pulled in after getting our first load of firewood.

 

 

 

 Our lovely view

 

 

 

 Our home away from home

 

 

 

 Its never to light out to play with a flashlight

 

 

 

 On Saturday we headed to the Knife River Indian Village, which is a national historic site.  This was the site that the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Indians(MHA)(Three Affiliated Tribes) constructed their earth-lodges.  These structures were massed in the hundreds and took up large areas.  It was a great place to visit.  Above Emma is stamping her very first entry into her very own National Parks Passport book.  Every National Park or historic place has a dated stamp that you "cancel out" when you visit.  She will love having a head start on that when she gets older.

 

 

 

 Here is the inside of one of the Lodges.

 

 

 

 Here is the outside.

 

 

 

 This camping and what not is tiring stuff!

 

 

 

 Chilling with Mommy!

 

 

 

 We had visitors all weekend that Emma would call Mouse.....she would clap her hands together and say here mouse, c'mere mouse.

 

 

 

 More time with Mommy

 

 

 

We spent allot of time "jumping" off of things, she almost has it, but can count to three like a champ.

 

 

 

It was a great weekend, and we will be camping again this coming weekend at Lewis and Clark State Park!