To Medora and Back

This past Wednesday we packed up and headed over to Medora for the musical. Kids are free on Wednesdays, so that was our motivation. We left Bismarck at about 4:00 pm, stopped in Dickinson for supper, drove on to Medora, walked around town for a bit, took the kids to the Medora play area, and then headed up to the amphitheater.

The unmolested hills around Medora are beautiful. Oh well, at least we had five bars all over town!

If you remember, all day Wednesday we were getting spotty rain. We had a few drops as the show started at 8:30 but that was all. The rest of the musical was dry. Here Buffalo Dale, the "host," is introducing the Coal Diggers. The steel guitar player is from London, England.

Dale and the Burning Hills Singers performing the opening number. None of them are from North Dakota, although four are from Minnesota and one is from South Dakota. If I remember right, the remainder were from FL, CT, or TN.

Clogging!

The featured act is The Peking Acrobats. The ladies are spinning plates and the men are at the sides in the animal costumes.

Very impressive considering there are four people involved. They walked the ball all the way across.

When they were setting this up Donovan said, "There is no way anyone can do that!"

We thought this was scary.

We were amazed by this.

The crowd gasped for this one. Note the bottom chair is on four bottles.

The show is over, folks. Here the guys in our family were waiting for the ladies to finish in the bathroom, so I pulled out the camera for a picture.

We drove all the way back to Bismarck and pulled up to the house at just before 2:00 a.m. It sure was a rough day at work on Thursday!