Last year Jason and I decided that each year we would celebrate our anniversary in a different state, drawn at random. On our 6 month wedding anniversary he handed me a ziplock bag of little paper strips, each of which had the name and slogan of a state on it. I reached in and discovered that our romantic first anniversary was going to be spent in.......North Dakota.
Womp womp.
We were hoping to plan a separate trip there, but with moving our time was limited. Instead, we decided to take advantage of its location and stop on our trip out West.
First stop: the Buffalo Museum and
World's Largest Buffalo in Jamestown, ND.
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| Run, Jason, run! |
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| Ricky really enjoyed having his picture taken with the buffalo. |
Next we passed signs for Salem Sue, the
World's Largest Holstein. Jason decided that a good farm boy couldn't pass up this photo op, so we got off the highway and took a few photos. Of course, he had to try milking her.
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| Apparently ND has decided that very large statues of animals will be its calling card. |
Our final ND destination was the Theodore Roosevelt National Park on the western edge of the state. After his wife and mother died on the same day, Roosevelt headed west and spent some time cattle ranching and buffalo hunting in the North Dakota Badlands. Even though it was raining the badlands were still beautiful. It was like something from another planet.
We even saw a couple of bison (from pretty far way) and a wild horse.
The next day we got back in the car for the final long stretch to Missoula, MT. Here are the GPS directions for the day!
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