Custer State Park Wildlife Drive

This afternoon we decided to drive the wildlife loop in the park. When we went through the gate the ranger told us we could drive some of the gravel roads in our jeep to see the best sights. We did just that and saw hundreds of buffalo, antelope and prairie dogs! It turned out that even people in big RV's were driving the gravel roads so we had lots of company. We stopped and watched a huge herd of buffalo mosey down a hill into the valley. Another car stopped and I was telling them about it when even more buffalo appeared and started down the slope. The man finally told me to speak more slowly so they could understand. Turns out they were from Belgium! Wow! It was a man, wife and teenage daughter and they were having a grand time. We watched with them for a while and started driving again. We got behind a rented RV who was headed into a herd crossing the road. It took us a half hour to get by them but I got some awesome pictures. I have seen buffalo all my life but they still impress me! They were so beautiful roaming the grassy hills and ignoring us tourists with cameras. Mindy sat in the back and watched but never barked and certainly never thought about jumping out of the jeep even though the back window was open. She is such a hound dog!

Tonight we'll go see the light show at Crazy Horse. Clear sky and perfect temperature. If it gets a little cool we bought Crazy Horse sweat jackets so we'll be toasty. I'll tell you all about it later.