We woke up this morning to the sound of fire alarms going off in our hotel. Dazed and confused we grabbed our bags of "important" contents and peaked out of our hotel room into the faces of other dazed and confused guests. Needless to say, it was a false alarm and we were soon returned to our proper beds and fell into a dreamless sleep before starting our day for the second time.
I started my day off driving again. It was a long, imagionation-less ride before we finally reached the Badlands. I'm not quite sure why they call the Badlands bad because it held the most beautiful landscape I have ever laid eyes upon. When the clouds moved they revealed a beautiful, pure blue sky that can only be described as Crayola blue.
Mid-way through our trip we stopped at Wall, a tiny little town known for Wall-Drug. Wall-Drug is a street containing rows of different drug stores, which all seem to sell the same merchandise. Each store is filled to capacity with cowboy accessories such as boots, hats, furs, etc.
After spending a wonderful hour and a half looking at cowboy wear we decided to move on. We traveled for another two hours before reaching Mount Rushmore. It was incredible. The monument is so big; I was told that Washington's nose is twenty feet long! It took twelve years and a million dollars to create, not to mention all the labor it took. How that was possible seventy years ago I'll never understand.
I am now sitting in a cabin in Black HIlls Bungalows. Our cabin is so cozy and it sits right next to a lake. We will be here for three nights before taking off for Yellowstone National Park.
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