North Dakota has it's plus and minuses. Our memories of ND will always be tainted by our adventure with ticks. Ewww. For 3 days after visiting Fort Mandan, we were picking ticks off of ourselves. Yuck. But there were plenty of cool things too.
For instance, the National Buffalo Museum is in ND. Along with everything you would want to know about buffalos, they have a nice exhibit of Lewis and Clark items. They have their own buffalo herd too. It has an albino buffalo! It's an offspring of the stuffed buffalo (White Cloud) in the museum.Very cool to see. Also, they have the largest buffalo statue in the world! How fun is that!?
great hat, huh?!
(White Cloud)
This was part of the display for the medical supplies. See if you can tell why I took a this picture. It's totally 5th grade.
After the museum and looking at the herd, we moved on to Fort Mandan, and the tick attack!
BEWARE....TICKS!
Fort Mandan
It really was interesting though. Can you imagine what your life would have been like? Ticks, poison ivy, snakes, wildlife that could eat you! And the quiet. And how heavy your clothes would've been. The accommodations really weren't that bad though.
On our way out of ND, on some back highway, completely by accident, we found this;
Awesome, right?
Our last stop in North Dakota was the Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the badlands.
We saw the park's version of Prairie Dog Town. Soooo cute. I know they're a nuisance to the locals but, soooo cute. We also saw a small group of wild horses and some bison. We didn't get very far though. The road is closed between mile 7 and 11 because of erosion/deterioration. Only foot and bicycle traffic are allowed.
Next up, Montana!
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