Mount Rushmore is a wonderful place to visit. We took a tour bus from Ellsworth AFB FamCamp. It is about a 30 minute bus ride, and what a wonderful place to see, so patriotic, so inspiring. We stayed for the lighting ceremony at dusk. They asked all the veterans to come down to the stage and nearly half of the audience went.
We visited Crazy Horse and was surprised how large it is. It will not be completed in our lifetime. In fact it may be a long time before it is ever done. It is now being worked on by the second generation of the family that started this wonderful monument.
There was a storm while we were there in Rapid City. It was a rain storm then changed to an ice storm, these are pictures of the ice 4 or 5 inches thick all over the road while we were traveling up to Mount Rushmore on July 28th.
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