Time Spent in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

We spent 5 weeks in Sioux Falls.  Since that is where we are residents, I guess we should get to know the area.  We did some sight seeing, some geocaching, some fishing and a whole lot of eating out.
Sioux Falls is a nice, clean city, Ed commented on how you never saw any trash on the streets.    For a city of over 160 thousand, the traffic didn't seem that bad.   The prices at the restaurants seemed to be a little more expensive than Elkhart, but we did find a Chinese buffet that had a reasonable lunch price that was really good.  We also found a pizza buffet, which is popular in this area called Pizza Ranch.  Another thing we noticed in this area were the roads are in good condition.  Indiana always uses the excuse for pot holes  because of their bad winters.  Well, we figure Sioux Falls has bad winters also but they don't have the pot holes. 

Two things we went to see were the Old Minnehaha County Courthouse, and the Pettigrew Home and Museum.  They were both free and had free parking.  I thought that was unique in this day and age when everything costs something, 

Pettigrew had been a South Dakota Senator, who
had done a lot of traveling and collected things
all over the world, and had a museum in his
house.  When he died he left his house to the city
of Sioux Falls



Beautiful house

This was a side entrance to the house where the museum was.
Pettigrew had a large collection of petrified wood and had it
put into the side of the house. 

It was beautiful and the pictures don't do it justice

This was the Old Courthouse, which they turned into a
museum

very unusual chair

Dentist chair

chair made out of horns.

These were some of our geocaching days.  For those that don't know, geocaching is where someone hides a container, big or small, and gives out the coordinates and you try and find it with a gps.  What we like about it is, we end up places we wouldn't normally go.

This is called a micro.  We seemed to have a very hard time
finding them when they are this small.  There is a tiny piece of
paper in there called a log and you sign it and put it back where
you found it.

Had to climb up to get this one, but was a fairly easy find

This one we couldn't find, hadn't been found for awhile, so
thought maybe it wasn't there anymore

This was the outline of the battleship South Dakota

A battleship without the actual battleship

This was a radar station in the center of the battleship.  We couldn't
find this one, so we were driving by one day and saw this couple
looking for it, so we stopped and talked to them.  The husband was
really getting into it.  They couldn't find it either.

This one was another hard one, I was looking everywhere.

This one was called Storage Wars.  It was at an abandoned storage lockers.
A lot of the lockers still had locks on them.  I wondered if the contents were
still inside. 

Makes you wonder what happened.  Looked like an earthquake had hit them.

This is where we finally found the cache.  This white pipe came off and there
was a jar inside of it.  We couldn't find this one either, the couple that we
met on the battleship told us where it was, so we came back to find it.  I had tried to
take it off the first time but thought it was permanent so gave up.

Had to go in the weeds for this one

This one was on the edge of a golf course.  We never found it either. 
Sounds like a pattern for us doesn't' it.

Ed had this one found before I even got out of the jeep. 

We found this area one day while geocaching and went back and spent the day.

This place had a little bit of everything.  It had some kiddie rides, go carts,
laser tag, miniature golf and some other things.  And the prices were
very reasonable.  The go carts were only $5 each.

Something I always wanted to do.

Trying to line up the ball.  I take my miniature golf seriously.

Very nice course, the whole park was nice

 A couple of pictures Ed took of the sky and just thought they were unique and wanted to share them with you.   

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We are on our way to Texas.  We spent last night in Iowa, tonight in Kansas and tomorrow night in Oklahoma and than to Texas. 



Happy Trails.   Ed and Lyn


John 16:33  These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace.  In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."