Mount Rushmore

Or as I like to call it, Rount Mushmore. I've said it twice now, so Rount Mushmore it is. I was dead tired yesterday when we went, and my brain doesn't function that well on a full nights sleep!

This pic was taken just around the corner from Mount Rushmore. There's a break in the trees as you come around and right there in front of you is George Washington's profile! It was too stinking cool!!!

They have an evening show where the Ranger gives a twenty minute speech on why these four presidents were chosen and what they stand for in American History.

George Washington - Birth: Revolutionary War General

Thomas Jefferson - Expansion: Louisiana Purchase

Abraham Lincoln - Preservation: Saved the Union during the Civil War

Teddy Roosevelt - Development: Conservation of natural wonders

They then show a 20 minute video done by the Discovery Channel about Mount Rushmore and once it's good and dark, they begin the lighting ceremony. It's really pretty cool. I got it on video, but it's pretty grainy. In real life it was awesome. It's so dark outside, but then slowly the monument lights up.

It was really cool! I highly recommend making the trip here just to see it!

Mt. Rushmore, here I come!

Within the last 4 hours I have gone from not having any vacation plans this year, to having a booked flight to Rapids City, South Dakota on August 9. My friend Kathie and I are going to spend a week in South Dakota visiting such places as Mt. Rushmore and The Badlands. I’m so flippin’ excited!!! I’ve wanted to go and do something this year, but hadn’t had any ideas of what I wanted/could afford to do until now. Were going to rent a car, travel around and find hotels as we go.

Kathie, you are so awesome!! Thank you for asking if I would like to travel with you. It’s going to be so stinking cool to get to spend a week with you!! Once you become Dr. Kathie and can afford it, I say we try doing our Italy trip again! I want to go to Germany, too. Maybe get a EuroPass and visit both countries in the same trip?? Ok, that’s a bit in the future, but it’s a nice dream!

And I can update my map below!!!