Day Twenty Four

Utter terrible news to start. The swimming pool didn't open until 8am so no chance for a go on the waterslide.

We had breakfast at 7.30am and were ready to leave by 8.50am. Our first stop was just across the interstate from where we were staying - http://dickinsonmuseumcenter.com/

Although there are some different things there we were only really interested in seeing the dinosaurs. There were lots of rocks and crystals at the start before we got to the dinosaurs. Most of the exhibits were just casts of bones as opposed to real ones.

Dinosaur

Another dinosaur

There was one real thing we did see, although it is still being prepared to be displayed, which was a real triceratops skull discovered in Montana.

Real dino

We gave ourselves an hour to look around and it was plenty of time. We were back in the car with a magnet by 10am. Then we hit the road, I-94 to be exact and headed east across North Dakota. We drove for three hours stopping only briefly to use a rest stop.

We ended up in Subway in Jamestown for lunch. We then fuelled up and then got back on I-94 completing another 90 miles east to Fargo. We also lost an hour due to crossing time zones back into central time. During the afternoon we also found out that Bruce Forsyth had died. Good game, good game.

When we got to Fargo we went straight to http://www.fargoairmuseum.org/  as it shut at 5pm and due to the hour loss it was now 4pm.

Luckily an hour was plenty of time to look around the exhibits. There were planes and a helicopter.

Huey

Big Drone

 

Blue Plane

The museum shop was disappointing as there were no magnets. Tragedy. We left and headed to the hotel and checked in before heading out to the Fargo Visitor Centre. There wasn't much there but Ann wanted to see the wood chipper they had.

He doesn't look chipper

It was the one from the film 'Fargo'. Hence the interest. The good news was there was a magnet with the chipper on it.

We left the centre and nipped over to IHOP to give dad his first taste of pancake heaven. I think he is a convert.

Our final activity for the day was the third round of the triway golf tournament. We played here http://www.thunderroadfargo.com/

First task was to choose which of the two courses to play. We based it on not at lot as both seemed quite busy. Luckily we didn't have to wait at any hole so played non stop. Ann made a very bright start to the round.

Dad didn't quite have the magic from the previous two rounds.

And shots like this on the back nine didn't help his cause.

The final scores were:

Knightley RJ - 49
Knightley WR - 58
Roffe - 65

We then headed back to the hotel and settled in for the night.

States visited - 9