Day 23 started out with a trip to the famous Wall Drug to look around at the miles and miles of shelving and advertisement they had. It was literally like a shopping mall built out of two-by-fours. There were stores in every category on the complex from kids sections to jewelry to restaurants and designer clothing.
After leaving Wall, we headed across the vast prairie that is South Dakota and made it to De Smet, SD, otherwise known as "The Little Town on the Prairie" from the Laura Ingalls Wilder book series. Katy and I are both fans of the books and decided we had to check it out.
From De Smet, we headed out of town to the Ingalls homestead itself, where we were able to go through a self-guided tour throughout the area using the number system seen here. There was an area that showed a mock sod house and a wood shanty, a rope making station, and an old fashioned well and pump.
In the barn, the keepers of the homestead had a barn cat and some kittens that Katy and I played with for a little while. Not seen here is a solid dark grey kitten that was a rebel and climbed all over the hay bales while the other kittens fed.
The last stop on the tour was a model school house from the 1880s complete with desks and other items from the time period. All the tour participants were able to go in the school and get a "lesson" from the time period and make an "autograph book" as seen in the book series.
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