If you have ever been to Rapid City,SD and you have a little one you have probably been to Storybook Island. It is definitiley one of the jewels of this city. I have to admit that I was really looking forward to taking Cassie there. All of my other children have been there multiple times, and I have tons of pictures of them with the various character. It is always fun and interesting to see who they have added since our last visit. Well, it has been quite a few years and they have really improved the park.
We have always had a routine for going threw Storybook Island..... go to this setup and pose with this character........ Thus we have all the kids with the different characters throughout the years..... add the new ones as they are added to the park. You wouldn't think that we actually go to someplace like this to let the kids play? Not when you have a prime photo opportunity like this.
Problem number one..... someone forgot to inform Cassie of our plans. She seem to think she was there to run all over and play. This child is use to having her picture taken, but when there are so many wonderful things to see and play with you can't really expect her to stop and smile on command. So both mom and grandma had to get really good of catching her on the fly.
Problem number two.......something like a dozen school buses dropped off a bunch of wild animals impersonating children. OK, I have been to Storybook Island dozens of times over the years and I have never seen so many wild children out there before. So to make the challenge of getting Cassie's picture at the designated spots even more challenging..... we had to snap our shots in between the little heads that kept running in front of the camera.
All in all we had a wonderful day..... and it was very enjoyable to see Storybook Island again......Secretly, I think Marc was more excited to see it than Cassie..... or maybe that was just him putting on a good face for his mother. Yeah, probably just a good face. He was a very good sport. He was even very helpful keeping some of the wild children out of our shots. At 6'2" he is very intimidating to the little ones. Except Cassie.... she knows she has him wrapped around her little finger.
Well we are off to do more exciting things in the Black Hills today.
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