most blessed mom!!: Road Trip: Day 10!

Why this blog...

I am the mother of the three most talented, intelligent and beautiful children ever to live on this earth. I am also privileged to be married to the most wonderful man! He has added three additional talented, intelligent and beautiful children to our family! I have a job that I mostly love, a wonderful education, a beautiful home, marvelous family, and I have the privilege of belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I have been greatly blessed in my life, but I sometimes forget that. So, I decided to create this blog as a way to remind myself of all the many blessings and miracles that surround me. (I'm also terrible at keeping a journal- so this will be something for my kids to enjoy as well.)

I hope you enjoy what you read. I would love to hear what you think!

Deanne

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Road Trip: Day 10!

Day 10: Wednesday, July 24th- Mount Rushmore... and so much more!

We started the day with a huge getting-lost-detour... But it was a good thing. We actually drove through an Indian Reservation, and it was very enlightening to me- I knew the history, in part, of the government setting aside the unwanted land for the reservations, but driving through this one solidified the facts in my mind, It is so sad that the greed of so few could affect the lives of so many generations of people.

Oh, and I saw a 'dinosaur'...

Then, Mount Rushmore...

You cannot truly comprehend how huge and magnificent this monument is in scale unless you have been there- Luke believes this now...

And we got to eat in the famous (from that Hitchcock film) cafeteria!

Luke had a buffalo burger...

And enjoyed the other wildlife while hiking the trails:

After we left Rushmore, we took another huge getting-lost-detour... but again in a good way!

We drove through Custer National Park- beautiful! At least if you don't mind the hundred hairpin turns in the road and the one lane tunnels through the mountains... it was worth it to see this: