Trip to Mt Rushmore

Mike and I left on Friday for a little get away, without the kids!!  Gram and PawPaw were nice enough to watch the kiddos for us.

We left Friday morning for Denver.  Once there, we headed to the first Chipotle!!

Then we headed to Estes park.  We found our hotel and then drove around the Rocky Mountain National Park.  Not all the roads were open, but we enjoyed what we did see.  Lots of Rocky Mountains, snow, and LOTs of elk.  Oh and some wild turkeys.

The next morning we headed out on our 5 hour drive to South Dakota to see Mt Rushmore.  First we drove through mountains and then we hit Wyoming.  We went through a town that had a population of 4 and drove like an hour without going through a town!  We did see tumbleweeds, which were cool!  It was nice weather and just a beautiful drive.  We got to South Dakota and headed to Mt Rushmore.

Really neat!!  Then we drove through the ghost town that Mt Rushmore is in, everything is closed until May.  We headed to Rapid City and had a nice dinner and walked around their downtown.

On Sunday we headed out to Wind Cave National Park.  Inside the Park we saw Buffalo.  On our way there, we drove down a rode that seriously had one lane bridges made out of logs (like you would make a log cabin with) and one lane tunnels through Stone!!  Very crazy rode and we were afraid at any moment it would be closed!!  Very much an adventure!!!

inside cave

We left the park and headed back to Denver.  We were not so lucky with the weather this time.  We seriously drove through a blizzard!!!  It was raining, then snowing--snowing ALOT!!  We finally made it to Denver and hang out in the LoDo downtown area.

We didn't do much on Monday in Denver and then headed home.

The kiddos had a blast with Gram and PawPaw.  Here are some pictures from their weekend.

 They were exhausted after school yesterday!  And maybe going through sugar withdrawal!!