June 19th 
Sunday,
June 19, 2005 “Devil's Tower and
Mount Rushmore
”
"Hi
To Everyone,
We
left Rawlins behind and made our way to Devil’s tower and then on to Keystone
and Mt.
Rushmore. Along the way we ate at ‘dead lobster’ (Red Lobster) where James had his
first lobster – he liked it, but it was messy!
Started the day with the
Rapid City 2nd ward for sacrament meeting (would have never found it without the GPS).
Afterwards we backtracked to
see Mt.
Rushmore again and then visited Custer State Park
on the way to Wind Cave (where we ended up 200 feet below ground). Made our way back to Keystone
ta’other way and swung by Crazy Horse Memorial (just saw it from the highway).
Pretty country. Lots of tourist traps (which we avoided . . . we think). Some in
the party didn’t like the long ride through Custer State Park, but others thought it was pretty cool. Bet you can’t guess who liked and who
didn’t :-).
The Cave was ‘wicked!’ though and
Mt.
Rushmore
at night (and again by day) was very nice. We bought some really expensive ice
cream cones there. Well, that’s something. And there was this ‘Graft Shop’
. . . which some members of the party couldn’t resist and other members
avoided ‘like the plague’.
Tomorrow
is the grueling trip to the biggest Mall in
America
. . . I guess no life is complete (this is what I’m told) without seeing a
really, really, really big mall, but then again . . . "
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