Vacation "Out West" circa 1993

For a while now, I've been meaning to scan old pictures to have a back up and have them more accessible with the rest of my digital pictures. Tonight I finally started this project! I scanned pictures of a trip that I took the summer after 5th grade with Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle David. Here are some of the highlights!

We started the trip by driving to St. Louis. You'd expect that I would have taken pictures of the arch and other famous St. Louis landmarks, but instead I documented a picture of one of the "best playgrounds I'd ever seen" (according to my writing on the back of the picture). I think it may have been at a truck stop.

From there we made our way to South Dakota. I remember being amazed at the Corn Palace, where they had murals made of corn. Random!

Here are some great pictures from the Badlands:

Uncle David, me, Grandpa

Uncle David, Grandma and Grandpa

Here is Devil's Tower, also in South Dakota.

 And I can still remember watching the prarie dogs play! So cute!

We visited Mt. Rushmore -

And Yellowstone National Park -

A highlight of the trip was playing in the snow in the middle of the summer when it wasn't even cold outside! I think these pictures are all from Glacier National Park.

This was my first time leaving the United States, since we decided to drive into Canada for a bit. I'm probably remembering this story wrong, but as I remember it, the Customs officials had no problem letting my grandparents carry me out of the country without any documentation. However, when it came time to drive back into the US, they wouldn't let us through because they didn't have documentation from my parents saying it was ok! So I tell the story that we were stuck in Canada, but I'm sure it wasn't for very long at all!

From Montana we drove down to Utah and saw the sights around Salt Lake City...

The great Salt Lake -

 The Mormon Cathedral (if that is what it's called, I don't know!)

 And a cool mine.

We visited Dinosaur National Monument where we saw plenty of dinosaur fosssils and good photo ops!

At some point in the trip, we came across the Gardner River and of courses stopped to take pictures.

Finally, here are some miscellaneous pictures that I'm not sure exactly where they were taken, but they are blog-worthy anyway!