Wow what a day! The humans left me for over 12 hours. I was not a happy camper when they got home, but treats, lots of pets and a little lap time made things ok again. After looking over the pictures they took, I’m glad I stayed home. They drove all over and saw a lot of different things. They started out the morning by visiting Bear Country. A drive through animal park with lots of animals that I think I would have been scared of. (Click on the slide show in the upper left corner of the blog to see lots of pictures of them.) The animals, like bear, elk, and wolves, where all running loose and they drove through in our truck.
Next they were on to Mt. Rushmore, where they saw the heads of four Presidents carved into the side of the rocks. They watched a movie about the building of the statues and took lots of pictures. (As they were leaving the monument a little girl and her mother were walking towards it. The little girl said to her mom: “Look at the silly faces someone put on those rocks!”)
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| Crazy Horse Memorial (work was started in 1948) |
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| This is what the carving will look like when finished |
Later they stopped at the Crazy Horse Memorial, where they are carving a statue of Crazy Horse on his horse in the side of a mountain. It was started in 1947 and has a long way to go to look like the model they have on the grounds. There were native American artisans selling their products. Nancy purchased a poncho that smells a lot like a lama.
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| The truck fit! |
They checked out Sylvan Lake and then spent several hours driving the curvy roads and looking at the needle rocks in Custer State Park and Mt Rushmore National forest. There were several tunnels on the road. One of them was only 8’4” wide and 12’ high. Right after they went through that very narrow tunnel, a class A motor home came down the road towards them----I wonder what happened to it. It couldn’t fit through the hole, and I don’t think there was a large enough place for it to turn around!
They stopped in Keystone for supper and then went back to Mt. Rushmore to see it illuminated after dark.
Wow what a day! The humans left me for over 12 hours. I was not a happy camper when they got home, but treats, lots of pets and a little lap time made things ok again. After looking over the pictures they took, I’m glad I stayed home. They drove all over and saw a lot of different things. They started out the morning by visiting Bear Country. A drive through animal park with lots of animals that I think I would have been scared of. (Click on the slide show in the upper left corner of the blog to see lots of pictures of them.) The animals, like bear, elk, and wolves, where all running loose and they drove through in our truck.
Next they were on to Mt. Rushmore, where they saw the heads of four Presidents carved into the side of the rocks. They watched a movie about the building of the statues and took lots of pictures. (As they were leaving the monument a little girl and her mother were walking towards it. The little girl said to her mom: “Look at the silly faces someone put on those rocks!”)
They checked out Sylvan Lake and then spent several hours driving the curvy roads and looking at the needle rocks in Custer State Park and Mt Rushmore National forest. There were several tunnels on the road. One of them was only 8’4” wide and 12’ high. Right after they went through that very narrow tunnel, a class A motor home came down the road towards them----I wonder what happened to it. It couldn’t fit through the hole, and I don’t think there was a large enough place for it to turn around!
