We Are Now South Dakota Residents
Posted by Cynthia
We finally got around to making the trip to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to get our drivers’ licenses. We used frequent flyer miles, or it would have cost us nearly $1400.00 each to fly there from Seattle. We could have driven, but it would have been a long trip, and we needed to come right back to Seattle anyways, so we decided to fly. We got up around 4:30 am and drove to the airport. The flight went through Salt Lake City, where we had about a three hour layover. Then into Sioux Falls. We tried to rent a car when we got to the airport, but there were none available. I guess if one flies into a small airport it is wise to reserve a rental car ahead of time. So not knowing where we needed to be in the morning, we just picked a motel from the wall in the airport. The advertisement said free airport shuttle, and free breakfast with waffles. Did we get a free airport shuttle? No. We took a cab. The Super 8 motel was very close to the airport, but it is also in a bit of an industrial area, so it was noisy all night long. We left the heater fan on all night so we didn’t hear so much outside noise. Plus it was FREEZING!! The temperature was in the teens overnight. Snow was expected, but we didn’t see any. It was just very cold and windy. The next morning, Kevin got up to go down and see what the breakfast looked like. Were there waffles? No. Just some white bread, some muffins, some cold cereal, a juice dispenser, and a coffee pot. He brought juice and coffee back to the room, but was scared to try anything else. I went back to sleep, so we weren’t ready to leave until just before check out time. We got a cab to the driver licensing department, handed in our Washington licenses, and had new South Dakota licenses within just a few minutes. Now what. Our flight doesn’t leave until 6 pm.
Across the street from the licensing department, there was a Target and a mall. We ran across the street, and were practically frozen by the time we got into Target. The wind was blowing, and it was around 19 degrees. Brrrr. We had muffins and coffee at the Target cafe, then looked around a bit. Then we froze again walking over to the mall. It was a pretty good sized mall that looked as if it had been enlarged several times. We wandered around a bit, and Kevin tried on some shoes. We ate lunch at Culver’s a burger and “frozen custard” place. The food was good, and there was a lot of it.
After that, we called a cab and headed back to the airport. There is not much to do at the Sioux Falls airport. It is old and quite small. We waited for our flight, which again went through Salt Lake City. We got back into Seattle around 11 pm, and headed home. A very long trip for a ten minute errand, but it needed to be done.
