Is There Gold in Them There Hills?

Another unbelievable day at Custer State Park. The park has an expansive and extremely well organized educational program for kids. We drove over this morning for a presentation on Bison , went panning for gold in the creek and learned about park ecology. There were also several sites in the park with additional activities. Kids could earn certificates and badges. The list of what they offered was long and varied. Everything was hands on, each presentation only had about five kids show up, so there was lots of time to ask questions. On the way out we of course left through the wildlife loop again and the Bison were out! We passed through two large herds and got about as close as a human can get.
On a sad note, one of our cabin cluster friends has left. Carroll and his wife went home to Deadwood SD. We miss then already. Carroll, being an insomniac, was always out on his front porch swing at all hours ready to shoot the breeze. I would often find Vinny there with him instead of in bed. There are some new people in their cabin, they seem nice but it's not the same....Tomorrow, Roy and Amy return to Nebraska. They have really become our closest friends in the KOA. There was an easy community feel that is slowly diminishing, the bright side is that it will make it easier for us to leave on Tuesday.