Mt. Rushmore

So I have not updated in a bit since the last leg of our trip was very exhausting. So now that we are home and I am a bit more relaxed I am going to update you on each of the last days of our amazing trip, starting with the beautiful Mt. Rushmore.
We started the day by leaving Murdo, South Dakota and driving towards the famous town of Wall, population 800. Why did we go to Wall you ask? Well, Wall is home to the famous Wall Drug. Wall drug was started in 1931 by Ted & Dorothy Hustead. The first few years their business was un-succesful and they tried to think of an inventive way to get all the people to come from the highway to visit Wall Drug. Dorothy came up with the idea of free ice-water and started putting out signs all over the highway. Soon they had so many customers coming in for the free ice water among other things that Wall Drug sold. Wall drug is no longer an ordinary drug store it is now a block long drug store, clothing, memorabila, travelers chapel, art gallery, and many more things to do. Today, Wall drug serves around 20,000 people per summer day with the famous free ice water and now 5 cent coffee, which is free with a donut to veterens we discovered. So we decided to be three of those 20,000 people that would visit Wall Drug that day and are sure glad we did!
After our journey in Wall, which also left us with our check ingine light on we continued on our journey. We had no choice of course since there was no open car repair shop in Wall. So we continued on praying that our car would get us to Rapid City, SD.
We got to rapid City in one peice and got the car checked. Thankfully the light was nothing major and something that could wait until we got back home. So we started the trek up the big mountain to Mount Rushmore! We were so excited as we neared those famous faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and their invaluable contributions to the United States. We were in awe as we looked way up, since they are far away, at those men who changed our country so much. It was a very moving experience and I am so glad that we were able to see it.
After Mt. Rushmore we continued on our trek to Cody, Wymoing to have a much needed night of rest before our big day at Yellowstone.