Badlands, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse & Crazy Cows

Day 9:
Where do I start? Today was one heck of a day! We started the day by stopping at a western town called Wall in South Dakota that is famous for a store called Wall Drug. It became popular by the free ice water campaign to settlers during the Westward Expansion. Next was the Badlands National Park. It was a crazy expirience being at such a high altitude and the layers of rock were gorgeous colors varying from purple to gold. We happened to make a huge detour along a unpaved dirt road where we were attacked by kamakazi grasshoppers getting stuck in the car grill to cows on the road that wouldn't move. Next was our goal to hit: Mount Rushmore. It was so big and up close the pictures we took almost look like you could climb up the chiseled granite and touch the former presidents on the rock. We took a nice nature trail where we learned about the sculptor and how each president got his face on the mountain. Lastly we visited the renown Crazy Horse memorial, which is similar to Mt. Rushmore but much much bigger. It is an unfinished model of the Native American Crazy Horse, which is planned to be a full-scale 3D model of him pointing to his lands of Black Hills, which was foretold where life was created and where life shall end in those hills. There was a special laser light show tonight projected on the mountain of how it became a project to remember the cultural values of the Lakota tribe. We plan to go to Deadwood tomorrow and venture into Wyoming, which from there we will make our way south to Arizona and such. Until tomorrow my friends.