Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Circle B Ranch - Chuckwagon Style


This ranch is run by a family. Their dad played many roles, aka pistol shooting instructor, Town Sheriff, Food Server, guitar player. The younger song we think looks like Ashton Kuchter. He was the Biscut Bandit during the nightly town gunfight. It was great. The sheriff comes to the center of "town" and convinces all the kids to help him catch the "biscut bandit". Of course everyone wants this to happen because we are starving and you can smell the bbq. At one point the bandit runs off with all the kids chasing him and then we hear gunshots and the kids come running back. Back comes the biscut bandit and he is being dragged by some overzealous deputy kids who are having a hard time remembering that this is "pretend". I'm sure that young guy can handle a couple of sucker punches from some young punks!

We arrived at Circle B Ranch after spending the day touring Mt. Rushmore and Custer State Park. We had been in the car for a while and were ready to get out. The kids choose to try pistol shooting. I must say that Rachel has quite an aim. Ethan of course had a slight advantage from shooting previously at Scout Camp. Luke even had a chance and with the help of the Sheriff, he had fun.


The ranch also had gem panning/aka panning for gold, lassoing, horse/pony rides, and more for the kids. The kids liked the lasso part. At one point, Ethan lasso-ed Rachel.

This is Luke and Uncle Erik waiting for the entertainment. We just finished eating a delicious meal - bbq chicken (Erik tried the buffalo), beans, applesauce, baked potato, biscut and a ginger bread cake.

1 comment:

lbhutchinson@comcast.net said...

Looks like lots of fun!