Next we stopped at Mount Rushmore and stayed there for the night. It was really amazing how huge the president's heads are. It was also really interesting to hear how they created the artwork. Several different artist actually hung from the rock and chiseled and drilled the heads with machines. They did it all by eye without any drawings or markings on the rock! All they had was a big plaster head hanging from the rock to look at while they were making each president! Clara also liked being there because there were a lot of her "fans" hanging around! Clara is an older person magnet! Robby and I joked the whole trip that that was the reason she would wake us up at the crack of dawn! We would be out eating breakfast at like 7 am and walking around sight-seeing by 9:30 or 10! Everyone else out at that time seemed to be a good 50 or more years older than us and they LOVED Clara! She would coo and smile at everyone. It was funny....
My family!!!!
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
Some guy who barely spoke English wanted to take this picture of us! I like how Robby is pointing to the rock and how Clara looks like she is contemplating the meaning behind it all!
10 of these goats were given to some state park in South Dakota a few years ago and the broke out of there pen! There are now at least 200 of them just free on Mount Rushmore now! We were surprised to actually see one on the side of the road!
