Cup of Thoughts

The next morning, after Crazy Horse , we went to Mount Rushmore. You might recognize this picture from my bubble braid tutorial ! This is a panorama standing before Mount Rushmore. After standing there for several minutes acting like the typical tourists, we decided to take a trail to get a closer look. Little did we know, that the trail makes a loop and only half of it is non-strenuous. Each of the presidents had their own profile viewing, which was neat This is one of the views that features all of them. This was taken inside of the Sculpture's Studio. You can't really see it very well, but the miniature sculpture was the ideal piece by Gutzon Borglum, which never got finished completely. The actual monument should have gone all the way down to the mid-length of their uniforms.  Thomas Jefferson ice cream. The old-fashioned vanilla ice cream was made from the president's very own recipe . ...

On Friday night of August the 11th, the Dutchmen (our camper), my family, and most of all our belongings left the State's borders and headed west!  This blog post has taken longer to write than this trip actually lasted. So to make a wrap I'm going to divide this trip into several different posts. Because who's got time for that? While we traveled, Holly and I passed out the little Gideon New Testament Bibles to whoever we came across. I remember the first girl who took one was working at the gas station I got this coffee. Her name was Sarah. Our first stop, besides the gas stations we went to, was the MinuteMan Missile National Museum which had a lot of information concerning the underground nuclear missiles that deterred war from the Soviet Union. Some missiles are still embedded in the soil of South Dakota today.  Then we went to the Badlands, which are not as bad as they say.  This was just a glimpse of the many rock formation...