Mt. Rushmore National Park

We had a slightly earlier start to our day today compared to the usual daily travel schedule. Not by choice, of course, but mainly because we set our alarms the night before and forgot that we're now 2 hours behind EST time zone. We actually didn't realize it until it was about noon, but it was a blessing in disguise since we got to see Mt. Rushmore before a whole lot of people started showing up. I was like a giddy little school girl with all of the photo ops and of course, we had to take our usual jumping pictures as well. 

Anyway, the national park itself was filled with all sorts of commemorative presidential stuff. Usually, when we go on these kind of things, Melodee is all about soaking in the culture and the historic facts, and then she'll get mad that I'll go wander off and just take pictures. So I guess you can say, between the two of us, we get a pretty complete impression of the place.  

Usually, when we go on vacation together, we'll always have this photo scavenger hunt where we each have to find three things and take a picture of them.  Sometimes they are pretty straightforward, other times they are just silly. For instance, in the Philippines Melodee had to find a guy with a mohawk and in Prague, I had to find a tranny (which I actually did, and took a picture right in his/her face.) For this trip, my challenge is to take a picture of 1) a red porsche, 2) twins, and 3) a black person in South Dakota. Melodee's challenge is 1) a female state trooper/cop, 2) a "population sign" (for the record, Keystone, SD has a population of 311....I think I have more Facebook friends than that whole city has inhabitants) and 3) an Asian person in South Dakota (Melodee used to live in North Dakota and somehow thought that finding an Asian & black person in S.D. would be hard. I told her it's 2009 and Barrack is president and that anything is possible). Well, below is a picture of a black person in South Dakota, and a picture of Melodee pretending to take a picture of Mt. Rushmore, but really taking a picture of some random Pinoy tourists we stumbled along. We are now tied 1-1.

Anyway, in more serious news, after a 7 hour drive, we're in Denver now and tomorrow we'll head to Salt Lake City, Utah. Stay tuned for more broadcasts from the open road!

-Kris