We all enjoyed our great night of rest at the Dakotah Lodge in Sioux Falls and got up for their awesome breakfast. I think the hotel was a renovated older hotel and they had a nice courtyard for breakfast seating which is something I thought was a little out the ordinary but very nice.
The hotel had a really fun pool with a kids zero depth area and a big waterslide. Luckily they came and turned the waterslide on while we were swimming so Michael, Scott, and I all got several rides in. I think Michael went 10 times!
After a quick shower and pack up cutting it close to check out time, we headed to the zoo.
We really enjoyed our time at this beautiful, low key, and definitely not crowded zoo. My favorite were the two grizzly bear cubs. They had some neat stories about how they got to have the bears: one pair of siblings were removed from their mother from Yellowstone after she was teaching them to break into cabins and steal food (yikes!), and the other pair of siblings were found in Alaska clinging to life by their dead mother. They got to ride on an airplane to come all the way to Sioux Falls!
I was a little bit over it at this point, hence the lack of photos. The big hits for the kids were the sandbox, playground, train ride, and carousel. We also saw a special type of ancient cat that looked like a housecat-sized mountain lion and a Komodo dragon.
We were so ready to hit the road afterward that we just did drive through for lunch and everyone slept all the way back to Des Moines!
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