Our six weeks of family time and summer vacation are over and now we’re pointed west for our American road trip. We’ve left Minnesota and are currently in North Dakota.
The children were upset to be leaving our family: six weeks of grandparents pushing ice-cream at every turn being replaced with parents telling you to do your math is a big change. They’ve also got a lot of questions about what our plans are which we don’t have answers for yet. It is admittedly a little bit tougher than the start to a typical school year and they’re making the best of it.
The joke is on them, though: we’ve been teaching them things all along! We’ve been going to a bunch of museums around frontier history: Fort Snelling in Minneapolis, the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck, and Fort Abraham Lincoln in Mandan, ND. Since it’s now school days, expect to read their thoughts on them soon.
The weather has been great for camping, and we’ve been impressed with the landscape on the prairie: I was expecting probably what every coastal American expects of the Midwest (flat, corn, boring), but Buffalo River State Park in Minnesota had both prairie restoration and groves of trees down by the river and Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park is on the banks of the Missouri River and has also been really nice.
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I’ve been wondering how the school year was going! I love reading these blog entries! Thanks for including me in your trip. Wish I could be there.
Oh, as I recall the ice cream events were suggested by other than grandparents in a couple instances……🍦🍨
I look forward to reading posts by the kids. 😍