{Badlands}

The next day and a half of our journey was spent at Badlands. The husband was SUPER looking forward to this stop. He had been talking about it for weeks... he went as a child and had such fond memories of the place. And I quote, "You can just run up a mound of dirt and you feel like you climbed an entire mountain! It's the coolest!" Haha.... I love that guy.
We accidentally took an interesting way into the park.... some random side gravel road that took us to the middle of the park....it was very....sketchy. Badlands covers a lot of area and since we didn't take the main entrance, there was not a welcome, or a map, or anything helpful. It looked like we were in the middle of no where....The only thing we found was a picnic area.....We were a little nervous. The husband later admitted to me that he was nervous that his fond childhood memories could have been a little rose colored. This is what we first saw when we got there:

After driving around for a bit, finding someone who had a map, and got our bearings, we were able to see some pretty exciting things and take some great hikes!! Luckily, the husband's memories were pretty accurate. We did climb mounds of dirt and it did feel like we just climbed a freaking mountain. Here are some pictures of our adventures here:

These are buffalo footprints. We figured they like to rub up against these posts

Prairie Dogs! Cute little suckers...

This momma and baby were just off the side of the road!

Very very windy...

Look at me! I just climbed a mountain!

our shadows

The husband's shadow petting the bunny's shadow ha!

We had a great day and a half at Badlands!!!! :)