6-13-06 Mount Rushmore

It rained last night. We woke up to blue skies and sunshine. It was 75 at 8 a.m. Talked to my sister for a bit, she was on her way home from work. We skipped our exercise…darn…so we could get on the road to Mount Rushmore. We took highway 79 south out of Rapid City to highway 36 to highway 16A. It is the most scenic way to get to Mount Rushmore, but because 16A is very narrow, windy, had pigtail bridges and one lane tunnels that are only 12’ 4” high; NOT for RV’s. This route was beautiful and as you went through the tunnels, Mount Rushmore was seen as you went through each one. We stopped at every possible place to get pictures. We didn’t actually go into the National Monument, cause we felt we had seen what we wanted and didn’t want to pay $8 to park. Those structures you see at the base of Mount Rushmore are parking garages!

Then we walked around Keystone, a tourist town and had lunch at the Ruby Hotel and then had a truffle for dessert from the Fudge shop across the street! It is 95 now and BIG thunder clouds are building again. We are under thunder storm warnings. I just hope we get to miss the giant hail events that have happened around here, where people have had to replace the roofs of their houses because of hail damage!

We got home around 4 and I did a load of laundry. Chores are done! Rough day. A bowl of Raisen Bran for dinner, a few hours of frustration getting these pictures where I want them and this post published and then bedtime!

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