Sightseeing Day:
- Bully: A Conversation with Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the North Dakota Badlands
Not moving early this morning. We had decided yesterday that today we'd go the play "Bully," which was not to start until 4 PM. After that, our plans were to drive the North Dakota Badlands at sunset.
No surprise, we were kept awake most of the night with trains; they are worse here than anywhere else we have camped--and we've even had trains that were closer to us. These trains come all day and all night and blow their piercing whistle each time they cross the street near the campground and every other street along the main drag.
From 5 PM until 10:30 PM, “Cowboy Joe” entertains the campground inhabitants by strumming is guitar and singing songs on the loud speaker. He's perched in front of the office and about 25 folks joined in with the frolicking. We are camped only 6 RV spaces from the office, so this was quite disrupting to the anticipated quiet of the evening. Geez, I could hardly hear my reality TV!! Ha Ha.
At 3 PM, we headed out for the “Bully” play. The seating was first-come first-served with pre-paid tickets, so "I" wanted to get in line early. The doors opened at 3:30 PM. We were in line at 3:15 PM—and we were the only ones in line until about 3:50 PM! I keep forgetting that we are not in Kansas anymore--oh, I mean Atlanta--and that there are few people to attend these performances and events. And, even fewer than usual because all the campgrounds have told us they are down about one-third of their usual summer business.
Dave was teasing me as I wanted to be sure that we got down in front. Due to our extremely early arrival, we were most definitely in the front row for "Bully."
This is a picture of the set, which is not good color or focus, but I wanted to share the set with you anyway. Yes, that's Dave head in the picture. Also, here's a pic of the actor that played Teddy. At the end of the play, he and most of the audience were donning real tears. As Teddy, he was sharing the experience of the loss of his youngest son in the war.
The play and his acting were quite good. We both learned so much about Theodore Roosevelt that we didn’t know, and we now have a much better appreciation for him as a man and our president.
After the play, we drove to Theodore Roosevelt National Park to take the loop-drive through the Badlands. We first stopped at the visitor’s center. Naturally, we found wildlife to share with you. (What's a blog entry without the local wildlife?)
The visitor's center had a video about the area, which was right up our alley. We walked around the center and looked at their museum. Then, we were off to the Badlands. No sooner had we gotten on the road when the skies opened up.
Here's the storm front rolling in upon us.
We had hail and even the prairie dogs ducked for cover. So, within a 15 minutes we turned back around and headed for the RV. It was still teaming when we got there and we got pretty wet just running to the RV; but, hey, we were at least cooled off a bit!
I had fixed country-style spare ribs in the crock pot earlier in the day. So, when we got back to the RV, I cooked up some Bush’s Grilling Beans to go with the ribs and we settled in for the night--trains, cowboy Joe, and all.
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