Strugis

Wow! What a trip! It was a lot of fun to get away and relax with good people. I really have no complaints about anything, it was a blast. When Sturgis was first mentioned to me a year ago I think I said no in 2 seconds. Thousands of bikes, nudity, crazy people, and heat sounded stupid and not worth my week of vacation. Well when we found out Brandon's dad purchased a house things sounded a little better. I recently have became really fond of the Harley and going on rides so that pushed my decision. After adding up things I decided I would do it for Tyler cause he really wanted to go. So off we go to take Gage to my parents house along with Kimberlee, Krew, Snoop, Rico and Harley. Yes Yes I know what you're saying right now, how terrible of us. Well if anyone could do it it's my mom and dad. They were more then willing too and the fact that I knew he would have too much fun and spoiled galore helped the situation. Not to mention Vanessa and Bradon and the great grandparents helped out as well. Yes that's what family is for, we would do it for them in a second that's how we do things in the D Fam. I will not lie though as we were pulling away from my parents house I did shed a few tears. This was the longest time we had been away from Gage. I do believe it's important to get away once in a while as a couple, for mommy/daddy time, but it was hard. Thank you mom and dad for spoiling and loving our sons while we played. I can not thank you enough for everything you do. We are so lucky to have you! So we are off on a 10 hour car ride, which sucked! I can't complain though as we are driving by bikes that have been on the road for days.

The ride actually went by really fast. We talked about normal things like Gorillas. We arrived in Deadwood South Dakota around 5p.m. we made great timing. The house we stayed at was perfect, we each had our own little room and tons of space. Thanks Don for being so welcoming and the hostess with the mostest. We met up with Julie and Kurt for a few then took off to kick off the trip.

I think we went to sleep at 9 the first night, we were beat! We made up for it though the rest of the trip.
The next day we took a ride into Sturgis to check things out. It's so crazy, everywhere you go or ride there is hundreds of bikes. Tyler told me that he heard there was over 300,000 bikes there this year. It was a lot of fun to people watch and ride in the cool weather. We were actually lucky to have great weather most of the trip. Not too hot, overcast, a few rainstorms but they were actually not bad.









We went and checked in for the awesome ride Don did for us. It's called the Legendary Ride and it had a limited number of openings. Dinner, and a Concert at the end. It was really cool to ride with everyone and see the crazy cool bikes.


Our ride took us to the famous Buffalo Chip Campground and holy moly was it crazy! Acres and Acres of land with tents, trailers, vendors, bikes, people, it was crazy! We had dinner and people watched until the Buckcherry/Def Leppard concert. It started out a little boring but then Shirley jumps up and says lets zip line! They had a zip line that went from one end of the concert area to the next right over all the people, it was sweet. I had never zip lined so I was kinda nervous, It was tons of fun and so glad we did it!





The concert was fun, Buckcherry was good and Def Leppard was old. Haha So thankful for Don for doing that for us, it made the night perfect! Riding home that night back to the house was so dang cold, I was stupid enough to wear shorts so the chilly canyon air was not my friend that night! That tops off day 1!
Day 2 we woke up to meet up with Julie and Kurt. They took us on a little ride to Rapid City Harley Store and boy were we suprised. The amount of bikes there was just crazy!






We did a little shopping and bike watching and headed back to Sturgis. We got some lunch and bummed around the main street. They block off a few roads in town for all Cars and only let bikes go through. My pictures do not do any justice for the amount of people and bikes.







That night we went back to Deadwood, BBQ'd up some hamburgers with everyone and went gambling. It was fun to be with everyone and I always love some Gambling.


Julie and Kurt headed back to camp and we headed back to a favorite of ours Salon #10, :). The band was really fun that night and we all (minus Brandon, boo) danced the night away! Fire!


Day 3 and we head off to see Mt. Rushmore. It was a rainy ride, kinda scary at times but it cleared up fast.
We didn't pay to go in because we were quite happy with our view from the side of the road and these photos.






We then took a little ride into Hill City and had some lunch. It was another town flooded with bikes.


After that we went to Deadwoods Cementary where Wild Bill is burried. It was quite the hike around the place but it was super creepy but kinda cool. Old places with so much history are quite interesting to me. It was another great, easy going day for sure!


We took our easy going day and made it a crazy night. We decided to head over to the famous full throttle saloon. I guess there is a reality show and it's quite good, I will start watching it now. That place was really cool and not as crazy as buffalo chip. We had won tickets from kber to a concert there that night but never ended up actually going to it. We had enough fun watching the crazies and the shows. Oh and before you think to yourself, wow amber has two beers in her hand, we had buy one get one free coupons people. We had to use them all! ;)








Day number 4 we decided to go bum around sturgis main street again. We had a little more shopping to do and wanted to watch some burnouts. We made a stop at the Sturgis Fire dept where we got Tyler a shirt and patch. I bought my new cute helmet, we did some good people watching and called it good.






That night we went to Coyote Ugly Sturgis style. It was dead compared to anything else we did the entire trip. Once we walked in they started calling girls up on stage. I always thought it would be fun to dance on the bar at coyote but I pictured it more in a crazy setting than this. Anyways I decided to get up and dance and had some fun doing it! Afterwards we went back over to our favorite salon #10! Yes it's really saloon #10 but we have quite a few inside jokes on this trip! That night we danced some more, took pictures with randon hoochie girls, gambled and won, walked the deadwood strip, ran in the rain, and laughed more then I had in a long time. It was probably my favorite night.




The next morning we woke up to begin the trek back to our babies! It was a way longer ride on the way home or so it seemed. When you have 3 of the worst backseat drivers in the car! ;)

So would I go back to Sturgis? Yes, but I have many more places on my list to do before another Sturgis Vaca. It was a lot of fun and we made so many memories. I still think I'm more of a beach, sand in my toes, ocean kinda girl or even Disneyland. Being a biker chick is quite fun though, way more carefree and crazy!