Day 13: Black Hills

Today was a busy but amazing day.

We started off by going to Mt. Rushmore National Monument. Yeah, the presidents on the mountain that is... Kind of fantastic place to be at, I mean, this is a place that we've always read and heard about.

After the presidents, we went on a amazing drive through Custer State Park. The road is built high on the mountain tops, and what mountains! High rock columns, called needles. Sometimes there was a narrow tunnel, in which only one car could drive at a time. We had lunch at a beautiful mountain lake.

Ok, after high mountains, why not some caves... So we found the 2nd longest caves in the world, Jewel Caves. The longest caves are Mammoth Caves KY, that we visited in November. This was the first time that we got a cave tour that started with an elevator ride 200 feet down! The kids did some exercises and became Junior Park Rangers, with a nice badge!

Tired but not done, we ended the day by going to the Crazy Horse Monument. This monument, will when ready, be the absolutely largest statue in the world. It's showing the Native American Chief Crazy Horse, sitting on his horse, pointing at his land, the Black Hills. However, they have worked on it for 60 years, and have lots to do before it's completed!

After this long day, we're tired... Tomorrow, we'll enter Wyoming.