We started the day by going to Mount Rushmore. It was fun to
see the heads up close! We walked along the Presidential Trail and enjoyed the
views.
Willa and I had this conversation:
Willa: Oh, I could just crawl up and kiss him!
Me: Who?
Willa: Teddy Roosevelt! He made the parks, and the parks are
so cool!
We followed up with gold panning at Big Thunder Gold Mine.
The girls were helped by Randy, an actual gold prospector who wore a
rattlesnake hat, and found lots of treasures!! Each girl found some gold flakes
and lots of garnets. Willa collected lots of pyrite. They both also found some
beautiful blue and green stones. They filled up their little vials and both
declared it, “Awesome!”
In the afternoon, we did the Wildlife Loop Trail because the
girls really wanted to feed the burros again.
The burros were off on the prairie, and the girls walked out with their
bags of carrots and fed them. The burros then followed them up to the road. We
went through three bags of carrots! We saw just a couple bands of buffalo this
time. It made us realize how lucky we were to see so many the first time!
We ended the day at our cabin. We ate outside and then made strawberry shortcake over the
fire in our cabin fireplace.
We then played lightning tag with
glow sticks. I also poured glow stick solution into the girls' bubble wands for glow in the dark bubbles!
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