It is 12:22 Mountain time...which means it is 2:22 East Coast time! We had a 10 hour, fun filled day of adventure in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We visited Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, took a tour of Wind Cave, and went back to see the Mount Rushmore evening event! Check out the pictures from the link on the right side of the blog page!
The highlights from Rushmore included the .5 mile walk through the president's trail, the history of the structure, and the patriotic, heartwarming, lighting of the monument program! It was really cool to understand why Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Roosevelt were chosen for the monument. It was also really moving to understand and appreciate what each of the leaders stood for and the impact each had on our new country! I was moved at the end when they lowered the flag and asked for all Military personal to come onto the stage! It was neat to cheer for soldiers past and present!
Crazy Horse is an interesting structure because it has been in progress for 60 years and is not even halfway done. The sculptor and his family though believe in private funding and will not accept government support. So it continues to be a family project with donations. It is rather interesting! We took a $4.00 bus ride to the base of the structure. It was pretty amazing! When Dan and his family say the structure in 1988 (89?) the face of Crazy Horse was not complete! He enjoyed seeing the progress. When complete Crazy Horse will be the largest stone structure in the world! Dan and I agree that we hope to see it complete in our lifetime!
Finally, we drove to Wind Cave national park, partially because we wanted to put another stamp in our National Parks Passport book, but this ended up being the highlight of the day. We took a 1 hour and 15 minutes tour through the Wind Cave, the fourth largest cave in the world! It was simply amazing and it was hard to capture the depth, beauty, and wonder of this cave with the camera but we tried!
It was an exhausting day and tomorrow we will head to Jewel Cave to take a lantern tour of the cave and then on to Cody Wyoming to get ready for camping at Yellowstone!
We love all the comments from everyone! We love that you all are reading this and coming on the adventure with us!
Hope all is well! God Bless and Good Night
Love
Laura and Dan :)
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Hey Guys! Looks like your having an AWESOME time! Very good job of keeping up on the blog! Today was my first visit and was quite impressed as well as fatigued at the end of reading about everything you have done. Look forward to chatting with you both on your drives (should give Dan a break from all the fun activities)!
Dan & Laura - we are LOVING the blog! Glad to hear all is going well. WOW! You have already seen quite a few fantastic things! Thank you for taking the time to share them w/ us!!! And, so glad to see you are starting your sunset collection. :)
Love, the Wittmans
Hey guys!!! I finally checked CLC today and saw the link to your blog. Your pictures/stories are awesome. Keep having fun!
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