Vacation!

My vacation is, unfortunately, over. It was an incredibly fun, yet relaxing time.

We drove part of the way on Sunday afternoon and stayed in Rawlins, Wyoming. Oh, and if you ever have occaision to stop in Rock Springs, Wyoming... don't. It's dry, rocky, and generally ugly.

On Monday, we spent a few hours at Martin's Cove at the Mormon Handcart Pioneer Visitors Center. We pushed a handcart and hiked and saw the fort and heard story after story about how those poor people barely survived.

On Tuesday, we visited Wind Cave National Park. We took two tours: a scenic-type tour and a tour completely by candle light. Extremely fun!

On Wednesday, we did a drive-by of Crazy Horse Monument and visited Mount Rushmore. We also drove up to Deadwood/Lead, through Sturgis, to Rapid City, and then back to our hotel in Hot Springs.

On Thursday, we visited Jewel Cave. We took another scenic-type tour and a tour by lantern light. The lantern tour was probably the most adventurous tour we took. Again, extremely fun!

On Friday, we came home, but stopped at Martin's Cove again to see a re-enactment of the Pony Express as they changed horses there at Martin's Cove.

And today, I'm back at work... I'll blog more details and post pictures when I have time!