Another weekend done and this is a busy place with only a few open camping sites.
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Last weekend at the amphitheater was a presentation and crafts regarding snakes and amphibians. This weekend it was about birds. I enjoy helping with the crafts. Curt is usually selling firewood (or driving around trying to) at that time. Friday night we made bird feeders with toilet paper rolls, peanut butter and bird feed. The second night they (not me) dissected owl pellets. (Indigestible material left in the gizzard such as teeth, skulls, claws, and feathers are too dangerous to pass through the rest of the owl's digestive tract. To safely excrete this material, the owl's gizzard compacts it into a tight pellet that the owl regurgitates. The regurgitated pellets are known as owl pellets.) They also colored owl masks. Sunday we had bird Olympics and the kids got prizes. The kids stood on one leg like a heron, had a stare down like an owl, tried to flap their arms fast like a hummingbird and had a race (fast like a falcon).
One of the shelters was rented to a group called SCA, The Society for Creative Anachronism. It is an international organization that does research and recreates arts and skills of the pre-17th century Europe. One of the men told us the time period from 600 to 1600. The group that was here is the Kingdom of Northshield. Most of the people there were dressed from that time period. We watched some armored fights and fencing.
We had a severe storm watch one evening so we helped the park rangers go from door to door to let people know. We didn’t get any bad weather luckily. If people didn’t feel safe in their tents or campers, they are able to go to the comfort station.
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Our first weekend at Lewis and Clark State Park has been a busy one. We’ve been assisting guests, selling firewood, helping the interpreter at the amphitheater Friday, Saturday and Sunday, helping sell ice cream treats Friday and Saturday after the amphitheater, keeping track of who is leaving and who is coming in, cleaning sites and fire pits after guests leave, watering flowers, picking weeds and picking up litter. We don’t have to clean bathrooms (rangers do that), but we do check them daily. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are our days off.
So, the first few days we walked a lot of steps until we got our Toro vehicle to drive around with. There’s only two days we haven’t gotten over 10,000 steps. The Toro needs a little work; it kind of bucks now and then and is hard on the back. I think today will be a day of rest.
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We don’t get any TV reception here, but do have free wifi in the park which usually works pretty good. We have Verizon cell service, from 4G 1 bar down to almost nothing sometimes. We are on Central Daylight Time, and at 10:00 at night it’s still light out!
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We moved on to our second camp host position with North Dakota State Parks, to Lewis and Clark State Park 20 miles southeast of Williston, ND. This campground has 101 camp sites and 2 cabins. Some of the sites are full hookup, some electric and water, some electric and some primitive. Near our site is a comfort station with showers and toilets, the dump station, a playground, shelter and amphitheater. The full hookup sites are in the newer upper loop, pull-through with a playground and newly planted trees. The rest of the sites are a combination of trees or open. This Park has a ranger station and marina, on the Little Missouri River, but we can’t see the water from our site. There is a beach area for swimming.
our camp host site
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This has been a busy week and weekend. Campers started coming in on Wednesday, with more coming every day through Saturday. There is a church group that has been coming every year for about 20 years. This year is their 50th year of the Trail Ride Family Camp. They pretty much double-fill every spot (except for six) with campers and horses. They have a huge tent they put up beside the large shelter filled with picnic tables that they bring in a truck. Half of the horses are brought in with a semi. They have organized trail rides, meals, games, etc. We saw license plates from North Dakota, Minnesota and Texas. Other campers coming from Wisconsin, Wyoming, Iowa. I don’t know how many people were here, but we went through a lot of toilet paper!
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Cliff Naylor, with the local news channel KFYR, was here Friday interviewing a few people and taking video. We can’t get the TV station here so I don't know if it has been on TV or not yet. If I find it on the internet, I’ll post it.
Happy 6th birthday to our granddaughter, Alaina. 
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