We spent the last 3 days in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Black Hills are a popular vacation destination and the sites here are pretty amazing. Unfortunately, the internet is painfully slow here so I won't be able to add pictures.
Crazy Horse monument is the largest sculpture in the world. They have already blasted about 8 million tons of rock since 1948, but the progress is painfully slow. Honestly, I couldn't tell much difference from 2007 to 2014. However, with the pictures in the gallery it does appear they have blasted more rock from the bottom of the mountain. Because it isn't complete, it just isn't as impressive as Mt. Rushmore. Mt. Rushmore took 14 years to create and the detail in the rock is quite impressive.
Wind Cave National Park is the 6th largest cave in the world. It has a unique rock formation called "boxwork", which looks like spiderweb rock that is formed by water dissolving the limestone but leaving behind other minerals.
Our final event here in the Black Hills was horseback riding. Bria has been begging to go horseback riding the whole trip, but most places require a minimum age of 8. When I found a place here that took kids age 6, I couldn't pass it up. We took a nice 1 hour stroll through the National Forest here next to Mount Rushmore.
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