Deadwood is not dead at all.....

June 22 – Another morning to relax, nice!  After a breakfast of sausage, fruit and cereal, we

Wild Bill entering Wild Bill's
This is where Bill Hickok
was shot and killed

gathered up the cameras, maps and headed up to Rapid City where we took I-90 to Sturgis and drove to Deadwood.  It’s been years since we’ve been there and my brother told me it had changed a lot like Sturgis had since our last trip.  We easily found a metered parking spot and Bill set it for 2 hours.  We strolled Main St. and stopped in several shops.  We always see things we like but don’t need or have space for and today was no different. 

There were several tour buses and I recognized some of the ladies from when we had lunch in Hill City.  We also met a couple from Ohio and he had taught a year in my high school there but before I was there and lived later where Bill taught before moving to Florida.  Small world!  We went in the bar where Wild Bill Hickok was shot and killed.  Now to see the table where he sat and played his last hand of cards, The Dead Man’s Hand, they charge $10.  Luckily when were last there we sat just a table away and got to see the re-enactment as part of our meal. 

For lunch we went off the main streets to Harry’s Spaghetti Western as they received pretty good reviews on Yelp.  The menu was small and mostly spaghetti and pasta dishes but it was very good.  Bill had a half portion of spaghetti that came with a salad and spumoni and I had a crust-less chicken Parmesan sandwich with a side of pasta salad.  It was good but I had to lose some of the bread.  We made it back to the car with 2 minutes left on the meter.

On the way back we stopped at Wal-mart and Target.  I picked up some fresh veggies and fruit and 2 Bison pot roasts that were marked down.  I was excited as they are expensive and I’d bought one before and cooked it in the crock pot and boy was it ever good.  So I’ll cook one and I froze one for later.  The drive back was pretty uneventful and we got back at 4. 

I readied a box to mail to Shiloh and Jude, wrote some postcards and washed Bill’s cleaning towels for the vehicles.  For dinner I used a half of the rotisserie chicken and made chicken salad and served it over a bed of spring mix topped with yellow grape tomatoes.  We finished the brownies for dessert.  I don’t think Bill was overly thrilled with the dinner, as it probably wasn’t as filling as he would have liked, but he said he liked it.

I’m behind on my paperwork!  I need to balance my bank statement and pay a couple of bills but at least the checkbook entries should be all caught up. 

We have really enjoyed it here, it’s a very nice park and quick to get to places.  After dinner Bill went out to get something and we had water running from under our water storage tank.  We can’t find what the cause was since the water was not on fill it was on regular.  We ran some of the water off as the tank was literally to the top and the water was coming from the release pipe.  Bill checked it all again and we don’t know what caused it.  At least it went on the ground and not inside.  We shut off the water from the faucet and will shower and use the storage water to get the level down some before we take off tomorrow.  Hope this is just a fluke!!!!