My sister Darcy and her husband Andrew live and work on a bison ranch in Nebraska. The trip out there was absolutely breath taking. The beauty is raw and seemingly endless. I was raised a country girl and I remember it took forever to get to "town". I must have grown into a city girl somehow though because going to her ranch in NE gave me a sort of reverse claustrophobia. There are no people really within view. Rarely do you see any other cars. That was a good thing because of the whole one lane road thing. The biggest thing was my cell phone didn't work....at all! It was weird at first but the longer we were there the more comfortable it was. By the time we left I was sad to go.
Our first night there we went to the Alice's house and petting zoo. It's not really a petting zoo but she has everything. Goats, horses, donkey, raccoon, fish, cats, dog, pond, bucket calf and the list goes on. We took a sand road drive to get there and only made one wrong turn. We ended up at some other neighbor's house first and got adjusted directions. Pretty funny. Can you imagine living fifteen minutes from the nearest person??
Tyler, Andrew and I think Molly the burrow.
Andrew and Isaac. Andrew is the best Uncle in the world.
I was holding my precious new niece Daraby. Mom, Darcy and Alice the wonder woman. She is just amazing. She lives out there, alone, taking care of her entire ranch and all of those animals. That is the definition of ambitious!
I got up early one morning to get some shots of the bison. They are so noisy! I even got a video of two bulls fighting.
That's a huge Mule Buck!! Probably Bambi's dad and he better hide come fall.
Can you say cutest baby in the world???
The horses. They have really soft noses.
Jackson. The boys could not get over the fact that cats can climb trees. It was so hilarious when they saw him do it for the first time. They came screaming into the house. I can't believe I am raising "city boys".
We headed to Custer state park after Nebraska and our little towheads slept the whole way. Must have been from all that fresh air.
Lots of love to Darcy, Andrew and Daraby for hosting us. We had a blast.
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