I'm way behind in the posts, sorry everyone. We were unable to get a good internet connection in Glacier and we ran out of the campground in South Dakota (more on that later) so I haven't been able to get on this. Emma feels that each day should have its own post, so bear with me as I try to remember all of the details (because, as my children have recently told me, I am old).
We started out our day with Max and Rosie dueling at the campground and then had cereal for breakfast, much to Emma's disgust. She really wanted to cook on the campfire but we didn't have any wood or anything to actually cook so that had to be postponed.
We headed out to the Crazy Horse monument, something that you should google if you haven't heard of it. It was commissioned by Chief Henry Standing Bear in order to show the world that 'the Native Americans have their own heroes'. He chose a Polish-American man named Korczak Ziolkowski who started work on the monument in 1948. Korczak had been working on Mount Rushmore with Gutson Borglum (love their names!). Crazy Horse's face was completed in 1998 and they are working on his pointing arm and his horse now. They are also creating a university and medical school on the site with the intention of educating Native American students. It's pretty amazing, but appears to be taking forever. Another interesting fun fact: Korczak and his wife (who was 18 years younger) had 5 boys and 5 girls, 8 of whom work on the monument.
We then headed to Custer State Park where we drove the nature loop. Rosie got tired of all of the motorcycles being loud and decided to take matters into her own hands, Western style.
Custer State Park bison, just hanging out by the side of the road.
We started out our day with Max and Rosie dueling at the campground and then had cereal for breakfast, much to Emma's disgust. She really wanted to cook on the campfire but we didn't have any wood or anything to actually cook so that had to be postponed.
We headed out to the Crazy Horse monument, something that you should google if you haven't heard of it. It was commissioned by Chief Henry Standing Bear in order to show the world that 'the Native Americans have their own heroes'. He chose a Polish-American man named Korczak Ziolkowski who started work on the monument in 1948. Korczak had been working on Mount Rushmore with Gutson Borglum (love their names!). Crazy Horse's face was completed in 1998 and they are working on his pointing arm and his horse now. They are also creating a university and medical school on the site with the intention of educating Native American students. It's pretty amazing, but appears to be taking forever. Another interesting fun fact: Korczak and his wife (who was 18 years younger) had 5 boys and 5 girls, 8 of whom work on the monument.
We then headed to Custer State Park where we drove the nature loop. Rosie got tired of all of the motorcycles being loud and decided to take matters into her own hands, Western style.
Turns out she is way more blood-thirsty than we already thought.
Then we had some bad language thrown around and there were burpees in the parking lot to make up for it.
Rosie did some in sympathy too.
We left South Dakota behind and cut across the northeast corner of Wyoming, which is completely desolate (meaning Diet Coke is hard to come by) and has a speed limit of 75, much to Chris' delight. Then we were in Montana which is also mostly desolate and has a speed limit of 75. Chris was sad, he thought that they didn't have a sped limit at all. We did, of course, get pulled over by a sheriff in a very small town (42 in a 25!). After going through the usual schtick he and Chris started chatting about meth (because that's what we all discuss with strangers) and then discovered that the new FBI agent coming to Burlington was someone that the sheriff knew. Only Chris.
Sunset over Montana.
We camped out at the very first KOA ever created in Billings, MT. Not a great choice on my part. It was huge and loud with a band playing, a group of MT rednecks in the site next to us who stayed up ALL night long drinking beer and chatting and a large family a few sites down who were up partying until 1 or 2 with their screaming children. That was fun. We hightailed it out of there as fast as we could in the morning and went to Glacier National Park.
Bonding over meth...very funny.
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