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Vinny with the Black Hills and a full moon in the backgroud |
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Me in front of the National Mount Rushmore Memorial |
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Vinny and the boys |
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Me and the boys... |
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The walkway to the monument has the flags of all 50 states..this is me sitting in front of the Idaho flag |
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Here is Vinny in front of his home state |
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Take a country girl anywhere and she will find the lamest things that amaze her...this is me next to a pop machine with a picture of Mt Rushmore on it...I thought it was so neat!! |
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We had to wait about an hour for the lighting ceremony..we took goofy pics like this one and played Rock, Paper, Scissors... |
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After a short film about the history of the monument and speech by a park representative the mountain is lit up while the National Anthem is played. |
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Man...you cant imagine how exciting it is to be driving up a mountain and turning a corner and seeing Mount Rushmore |
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And he is even wearing his Mount Rushmore shirt! |
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A Goat grazing through the grass |
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hehehehehe...as we were leaving the park there were goats walking into the parking garage!! |
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We also went through some caves while in Rapids City, this pictures is Vince surrounded by beautiful trees on the path to the caves |
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9 stories into the earth we go!!The tempature dropped 40 degrees to a chilly 43 degrees!brrrrr |
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Where the flash light is shining is the largest known dog tooth crystal in the world (16 inches). They grow an inch every 150 years! |
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The flight up...they said its about 9 stories! |
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Thats me...wiped out after climbing out!! |
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Vinny the explorer |
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haha...This is Redig, South Dakota, this "town" was even on the map!! It consists of what you see in the picture...a house and an abandoned house! |
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LOL..This fake cop car was something we ran across in another lil tiny town in North Dakota...I think its a sack of potatos with a hat on!!! |
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Thanks to this full moon I had something semi interesting to look at for some of our trip! |
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Another amusing sign of what we ran into on our drive..a CURFEW! I honestly have never heard of such a thing except in hurricanes or war!! |
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