Mount Rushmore was a lot of fun. The weather was great (this was true of the whole trip!) and it wasn't too crowded (also true of basically the whole trip!)
We have a couple of future presidents:
When we got back & were telling Grandma Doris about the trip, she mentioned that they'd kept track of everything they spent when she & Grandpa Leroy & Tara & Kerry took their RV on a big road trip, even "5 cents for ice cream." Here we are with our $8 Thomas-Jefferson-recipe ice creams. (They were quite good, and quite large, as I guess they'd better be for $8!!) Leah managed to lose a tooth eating hers. There were least chipmunks running around outside looking for crumbs.
Proof of the not-crowded-ness:
We watched the video about the carving of the mountain & it was quite fascinating how they planned out & translated the model to the actual cliff face - a pretty low-tech solution. It took 14 years, 400 workers (poorly paid for dangerous work) and $1 million dollars. I didn't realize that the rocks down in front were just the debris from the dynamite as they were carving, either.
James visited the gift shop & got a VERY realistic bat finger puppet.
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