I have a little while to hang out in bed this morning since Sean is taking the car for the oil change it told us it needed yesterday...amazing considering he got the oil changed the day before we left...in the last two weeks we will have driven more than my car usually drives in half a year...it's four years old and we'll finally hit 50,000 miles sometime in the next couple of days.
So more from yesterday...if you want me to be my usual cynical self I would tell you honestly that the Mt. Rushmore lighting show was like a 40 minute infomercial for the United States...I am all for being patriotic, but the ranger very dramatically took us through the trials and triumphs of our country complete with breaking into song. Then we had to watch a 20 minute Discovery Channel show...it was interesting, but it all was just a little too much...until they lit the mountain that was something to see.
We saw billboards endlessly for hundreds of miles for a place called Wall Drug so we had to stop...it was a block long of cheesy, touristy goodness...Mac put on the t-shirt we got for his Dad...it really matched the hat and red terrycloth wristbands he was sporting yesterday
A peek into our hotel room yesterday...me checking e-mail and Mac putting together memorabilia in the binder we brought along for him to make into a scrapbook...you got to hang on to empty cereal boxes right?
And finally Mount Rushmore...we got there just as the sun had gone down behind the mountain...
Today we'll go back and check out the museum and Mac wants to earn the Junior Ranger badge and then we drive out to Cheyenne, Wyoming for the night...
