Day 5

Devils Tower and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

We had a wonderful night’s sleep at the Wingate Hotel and had a lovely breakfast of bagels
and waffles with strawberries and cream.  Our first stop was at Walgreens the chemist, to
purchase Nick some cold and flu capsules as he had caught a cold on one of the flights. 
We then headed off on our one hour journey to the Devils Tower which is likened to Uluru. 
The Devils Tower is a volcano core that was constructed naturally by falling pillars and being
eroded by water over thousands of years.  Scientists say that the Devils Tower eroded very
quickly for modern times.  It was a spectacular rock jutting out of remnants of the volcano
on the side of a hill.

We next travelled along crossing into South Dakota and stopped at Deadwood for lunch. For $12 we purchased egg salad sandwiches, bottled water, 2 large coffees, 2 rice crispy cakes, a slushy, and cough lollies for Dads throat – what a bargain!  We walked around the wild west  township and purchased a few souvenirs.   We were all amazed at the number of casinos in this town. 
We visited Nelson’s Car Museum - it featured the James Bond 007 Aston Martin, 2 Fast 2 Furious’ Blue Camaro,  M*A*S*H’s Jeep, The Rockford Files’ Pontiac FireBird and The Bandits ’79 Trans Am Pontiac out of Smoky and the Bandit (this car was privately owned by Burt Reynolds after the movie was completed and to this day has only done 35000 Miles)and many more cars.  We wanted to visit Broken Boot Gold Mine but it was closed until Memorial day, so we headed off to Silver City.

It was a pretty drive to Silver City, there was only ever gold found in this city and it was named after Silver City in New Mexico where some settlers came from.  There was nothing in Silver City to look at except for a fire Station.  We next travelled to Hill City and then onto the City of Custer to settle down for the night at the local Holiday Inn.We had dinner at The Cattleman’s Steak and Fish Family Restaurant.  Nick had a Fillet Steak, Allie had Chicken and Vegetable Linguini Stir Fry and Jonathan had ½ rack Ribs with Homemade
BBQ Sauce (but he still likes Colleen’s Ribs better!)