Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse

Ok, first off all those that said Mt Rushmore wasn't worth more then driving by, I have to disagree.. and even our hotel host in Murdo, said it would cost $50 dollars to park at the park were also wrong!  It cost a mere $11 and was well worth it as our car was in a garage out of the sun, and the sun was brutal that day.
So we checked out and headed west to Mt. Rushmore arriving on the 4th.  The weather was warm and clear.

 Anyone who isn't awestruck by this... well heck.

I should have had a hat on, as I got a sunburn on my forehead!

And the presidents were there too!  I asked them to come back and help the country now, but they said they couldn't.  Too bad!

Ed in the dining room they used in North by North West.  Remember that is where they shot  Cary Grant!

Now it was onto The Crazy Horse Park, now that Was expensive for what it was,,,, $11 Each!

View from the parking lot.

Indian Bead work and clothing in the Museum

Ed and I by a typical, they say Teepee, it was really pretty, wish I could have gotten a good picture of the inside.

Below is what he will look like some day, there is a lot of stories about this place, you really need to Google it.

Beautiful Bronze in the Front of the Museum

 Now it was onto Deadwood.

Bad Lands

So now onto the Badlands National Park

This place is Awesome you have pretty little flowers that we found out were not dazes, but a prairie flower that doesn't usually come out unless they get a lot of rain.

 This view shows you the Homesteads that made it the one earlier didn't.

 Every corner we turned there was another view.

This really shows you why they called it the badlands, that and many bandits hid in these hills and you can see why.

The sun was not in our favor, to get the kind of pictures you get when it is just  right, and you see all the colors. but still awesome 

This was an overlook at the end of our travel and we were so glad we stopped as we saw our first and only glimpse of animals in the park.

A family of Big Horn Sheep

Dad a ways away

More on another part of the cliff

The view in the same area.

More coming up the side of the cliff

Leaving and we are still way up there

Then we went to Wall Drugs to get a burger and fries, pretty good but a tourist trap over all.  So we didn't stay long and it was on to Mt Rushmore!