Our second stop on our South Dakota trip was Pipestone National Monument in Pipestone, Minnesota. This park was a little bit out of the way, about an hour north of the interstate, but we wanted to stop and visit while we were in the area. It ended up being a pretty neat place.
We arrived at about 3pm and had about 2 hours there before it closed. They also offered the Junior Ranger program, so my son got his book and we started touring the visitor center. We also hiked the Circle Trail, a one mile path through the park that takes you past the pipestone rock formations. There is also a nice waterfall on the hike.
After finishing up the hike and visitor center, my son got his badge and we finished up just before closing time.
I ended up creating 3 2-page layouts for Pipestone, and included the park map and photographs of the National Parks Passport stamps that we got at the park. These pages were also created using the We R Memory Keepers Shine collection, and I used a lot of red paper and accents to highlight the red pipestone we saw there. The final layouts turned out like this (please click the layout to see it larger):
From here we finally headed to the South Dakota border and made it into Mitchell, SD at about 6pm. After visiting 2 national parks, being on the road and traveling for over 12 hours and covering 555 miles, we were happy to get to our hotel and rest.
UP NEXT: Wall Drug!
A little over a year ago we welcomed a beagle puppy into our family. The first few months that we had him, I took A LOT of photos. Like more than I could even bear to edit or go through or print. So they've sat in a folder on my computer for the last year and I finally got through them, and edited and printed those I want to put into the scrapbook. I printed about 200 photos, and now they need to find a home in a scrapbook.
I decided to do a dedicated album for this, since I had an extra album, and putting them in with my yearly family photos would have required getting another rind-bound album for the year. So, our little dog Scout will get his own baby book of sorts..."Scout's First Year."
I completed the cover page for the album today, and am about ready to start tackling all of the photos.
I'm hoping that I can get all of the photos done in about 20-30 2-page layouts, and complete the album in the next week or so. I purchased two dog themed scrapbook kits, and I have no idea if that will be enough to make the album, but it is a start. These are the last remaining photos from 2015 that I have to scrapbook, then 2015 will be complete! So, off we go!
