The Too Hot Day and Spearfish Canyon

The next day was in the mid 90s (or 35C) so we just headed to a lakeside beach and mucked around for the whole morning and into the afternoon, this being South Dakota there are not many people around either so we had it to ourselves for a good while.
The next day was a lot milder so we headed up to Spearfish Canyon.




You can't tell from Becky's demenour but she was bitten by a radioactive spider and her wrist really swelled up (you can kind of see its red in the picture below) so we took her to the hospital in Spearfish. We had to wait a while but eventually got to see a doctor and Andy explained that Becky had a bite and a swollen arm to which the doctor, no doubt expecting a little bite said 'let's take a look' and then when he saw it was quite taken aback and said 'Oh - that doesn't look good' - he wasn't sure what had caused it (so I'm sticking with the radioactive spider) and we had to get some medicine from the drive thru pharmacy!

on the way home we stopped for one last sit by a lake
and Becky got the medicine she really wanted
And that was our last day in the Black Hills and all that was standing in the way of our own beds was 650 miles of driving. one thing I will say is that Dan and Becky have bladders of steel as we did 320 miles in-between stopping. Kudos to Andy too for doing that much of a drive in one go!
I drove the first and last sections, handing over to Andy in Chamberlain, which is on the Missouri river and we let the kids have a splash given how cooped up they were for the rest of the day.