August 17
I set my alarm for 7:30. I got up by 8. Libby was awake like usual but the other two were still sleeping. I tired to get summer up but all I got was grunting and to go away. I was just about to lay down for a bit when she comes out of her room yelling at me to not go back to bed. We all worked together to get packed up and were ready to go by 9:30. Libby and Davan didn't want to go back to Rushmore so they left with Heidi and we were going to meet up at Wall Drug.
Instead of going thought the windy east side of the park I decided to go out the west side though Custer. it was double the milage, but the same travel time as it was all freeway. A much easier path with the camper in tow.
Since Summer is into rocks right now she has been asking me to stop and any one of the many rock shops. I figured it was a Daddy/Summer day so I pulled over. We looked around at everything. Surprisingly she did not ask to get anything. I did let her get a piece of rose quartz.
Since we had the camper I was able to drive through a special bus/rv lane and got right into the Mt Rushmore lot. My parking ticket is good for a year so we didn't have to pay again. Summer was really excited to see it in the daylight. We didn't intend to stay for more than a few minutes but there was a program going on. It w as a guy that looked just like Abraham Lincoln talking about the lead up to the Civil War and slavery. It was a very interesting talk and he reenacted one of Lincoln's speech. Later in the day he was going to reenact the Gettysburg address so I was a bit bummed we wouldn't be around for that. On the way out the fresh squeezed lemonade stand had just opened so we of course had to get some. I'm really glad we made the decision to stop back out.
We met the other girls at Wall Drug. I've been there twice in my life and it didn't really seem it was anything like it was both times I was there. The entire area is built up and it was surrounded by competing souvenir shops. Overall it just seemed like another junk shop.
I didn't really have any plans for our stop tonight. I had thought about one of several KOA's just for a pool for the girls. But with the distance we would have covered, plus loosing an hour for crossing a time change it didn't seem worth the money I would spend.
For no real reason I was thinking about stopping in Mitchell. On the way I called some campgrounds and they were all full. There was a city owned campsite that was first come, first served and thought I would try that. Luckily they had several spots open. It's a really nice campground. Sites are a bit tight but it's surrounded by woods and it's quiet. Except for all the frogs and insects of course.
I had some steaks left so Heidi, Summer and I had those while Libby and Davan had orange chicken.
Since tomorrow is our last day the girls have requested our traditional last day breakfast. Smashed cinnamon rolls on the Blackstone.
No comments:
Post a Comment