St Labre

Joe works for St Labre Indian Mission. It's a Catholic school that was started 125 years ago by a group of nuns. Students at the school come from the neighboring Northern Cheyenne Indian tribe and the Crow Tribe. Over the weekend, they had a big feast and pow-wow to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the mission. 

The kids and I attended the pow-wow while Joe helped set up the fireworks (he's part of the volunteer firefighters). Some pics...

National Monuments

We live close to some really awesome places to visit. Since I haven't traveled this part of the country prior to moving here, we decided to take a 2 day road trip to see Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, and Devils Tower. Mount Rushmore is only 4 hours away and Crazy Horse is just 20-30 minutes from the Presidents. Even though it was raining/overcast on the day we went to South Dakota, it was still quite impressive to see these monuments. 

We stopped at Devils Tower on the way home from South Dakota. It's about 2 hours from Rapid City, SD and about 2 1/2 hours or so from our home in Montana. I must say that Devils Tower was the most impressive of the three places we saw. We also went on a weekend that was free (didn't have to pay the $10 parking fee). There a couple trails around the tower and we took the shortest, less strenuous one. Caitlynn was a bit annoyed by all the walking over the weekend. I think she rested more than Joe while walking on the trail. Miles is quite the trooper. He really is the Energizer Bunny. It takes a lot to make him tired.