Unfortunately, the last day of our trip (which was all driving)I developed a headache which turned out to be a migraine. UGH. I think maybe the fact that our Saturday drive (We were in the car for about 15 hours!...which took us from near Scottsbluff Nebraska to my sister who lives near Kansas City, Missouri) was the longest day EVER probably contributed to the start of my headache. Or perhaps it was just the culmination of two weeks of stuffing myself with the most junk food possible, or perhaps just knowing the wonderful vacation was coming to an end?
Whatever the reason, I did develop a headache despite my taking two of the very expensive migraine pills I just bought. oh well.
I woke up this morning with a still nasty headache. I decided to not return to work until tomorrow, taking a sick day today. I just feel I could work with this pounding headache. I think the rest did me good cause now it is late afternoon and I am feeling much, much better. I think I'm gonna live. And I'm actually kind of glad to be returning to work. (Ok, I'd rather return to Glacier National Park for a couple of weeks, but ya can't have everything!)
Now to some more pictures!
These were taken on 6/17, Tuesday almost 2 weeks ago. We drive from Jamestown, North Dakota to Walford City, North Dakota. In between we visited the Knife River Indian Villages, the Enchanted Highway and drove around in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park (north and south units). WHEW! That is a lot for one day!
So, here are quite a few pictures from that day. I hope you enjoy them.
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This first picture is one of the metal sculptures that make up the "Enchanted Highway" which is a stretch of road that runs on a 32-mile stretch from Regent to Gladstone, North DAkota. You can read more about the ENCHANTED HIGHWAY HERE! It is pretty interesting actually. In brief, Gary Greff, who is a retired school principal, decided to build these metal sculptures to entice visitors to come to his hometown.
The Enchanted Highway features the World's Largest Metal Sculptures produced by artist Gary Greff.Gary is a native of Regent, North Dakota. He was a teacher and a school principal and had never done any art work or welding prior to 1989. He then began dreaming of ways to bring people and businesses to the small community of Regent -- fearing the town would someday die if it relied solely on farming. A hay bale strongman built by a farmer inspired him. He watched people pull off the road to snap photos of the oddity. He wondered how many people would stop for huge metal sculptures.
So here are pics of the sculptures that I got along the way.
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This was the sculpture of giant crickets.
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Amy and I decided to try to fit our butts into the little kids bouncy things. Lets just say they were a slight bit too big to fit (our butts that is) - ha ha.
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This is the Fisherman's Dream sculpture.
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The Pheasant Sculpture.
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The Theodore Roosevelt Sculpture.
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The Family Sculpture.
We then went to Regent and enjoyed a nice lunch of Panini Sandwiches. Here is a picture of my sister, my dad and Brandon hamming it up behind one of the sculptures on the main street in Regent.
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Since there are so many pictures, I think I'll end my post here for today. I may or may not do another one later. The next one will be of the Prairie Dog town that we came upon in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and some pics of the park and of the buffalo we saw there also.
Heck, I may even do another post today. We shall see. I really want you guys to enjoy the pictures and I'm afraid if I post too many at a time (like the 35 or so I want to post for each day...) then it may be a bit overwhelming. So....I'll stop here for now.
It is good to be home!
2 comments:
Welcome home! I'm sorry to hear about your migraine! I think a 15 hour car drive would do that to me, too.
Kailani
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Those were incredible sculptures. Wow.
Glad to hear your migraine is better. Im sure it had a lot to do with that yummy-cant-get-enough junk food.
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