Last night was very windy again in the tent, but at least the kids slept better. That makes such a huge difference! Today we saw the Crazy Horse Memorial that is being built a few miles south of Mt. Rushmore. It's a rather odd sort of undertaking - sort of a grudge movement against Mt. Rushmore. If it ever gets finished, it's going to be pretty impressive. But the original sculptor has already died, and it's a family affair keeping the work going. Very odd, in my opinion.
And expensive - it was twice as much to get into Crazy Horse as it was to get into Mt. Rushmore - and that's taking into account the fact that the woman selling admission gave us a 30% discount for some strange reason. I'm not going to argue with her, that's for sure. The kids weren't nearly as excited about seeing this as seeing Mt. Rushmore, perhaps because the work is a long way from completed, and to really see the work that's been done you'd be best off taking a bus ride to the base of the mountain - which we didn't do.
But we watched a movie about the undertaking and toured the museum briefly before going. It was turning out to be a scorcher of a day - in the low 90's according to some folks. Gena wasn't feeling well, so we decided that the kids could play at the campground in the afternoon while Gena watched in the shade. I wandered down to find a place to plug the laptop in and do some work. We regrouped later at our campsite, where Mika wandered around with the digital camera, snapping pictures of random things.
For dinner we had another campfire, this time with buffalo hot dogs and ground buffalo meat wrapped in foil with onions & mushrooms and cooked in the hot coals. We also roasted some ears of corn in foil in the fire, which Mika & Caedmon devoured. It was a hot day, but a good day. It was so wonderful when the sun went down and the temperature finally cooled off. We had thought we might avoid the wind, but it was windy again late at night, making the tent experience less than ideal.
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