Slow and easy day

John is in the full grip of a cold. I guess my allergy attack wasn't allergies after all. Sorry honey. We had a slow start to the day and went to the drug store to get John some decongestant and to the grocery store. When we left the campground, it was a glorious day, bright sunshine and nice and warm. When we got out of the drug store, it was overcast and starting to rain. A woman in the grocery store said "just wait five minutes and the weather will change as it is South Dakota after all." We have certainly seen the truth to that statement.

We headed home where John took a nap and I putzed around. After John got up, we sat outside for a while as once again the sun was shining. It was dark and ominious towards the mountains. Soon we were watching the lightning and heard the thunder approach our little corner of the world. We picked everything up and headed inside. It wasn't long before the lightning and thunder were over us. It hailed with some hail being as large as 3/4" in diameter; most were pea sized. The storm lasted maybe 45 minutes. We did have one lightning bolt strike in a meadow just north of us and boy was the thunder clap loud. Soon it was all over and once again the sun was out shining and we had us a beautiful rainbow as shown below.

The rest of the evening was spent indoors and John went to bed early. I had a good chat with Melissa and soon went off to join John.

About 4 a.m. we were awaken by a lightning and thunder display that last about a half hour. Jeez, enough already!