We woke up in the Rapid City KOA and headed to the camp breakfast. They had the most amazing pancakes, passable bacon, and good eggs. But the pancakes, the pancakes were amazing! We hung out at the cabin for a while, reading, minecrafting, other electronicing, and getting ready to go. Finally, Dad announced that we had to load up the car, so we did. We were going to see the Presidents!
If you didn't know, Rapid City calls itself the City of the Presidents because businesses around the city sponsor the creation of a statue for each president. There are forty-two right now. Obama's statue has been made, but they cannot put it out until his term is over. This custom started with Nixon. Everyone had named schools after him, and then he resigned. They renamed the schools.
On to the pictures! Each is captioned with the name and number of the President.
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| George Herbert Walker Bush, Forty-First President |
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| John Adams, Second President |
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| John Quincy Adams, Sixth President |
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| James Monroe, Fifth President |
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| Lyndon Baines Johnson, Thirty-Sixth President |
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| William Howard Taft, Twenty-Seventh President |
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| Martin Van Buren, Eighth President |
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| John F. Kennedy (one of my favorite presidents!), Thirty-Fifth President |
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| Andrew Jackson, Seventh President |
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| Franklin Pierce, Fourteenth President |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-Sixth President |
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| James Buchanan, the Useless, Fifteenth President |
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| Abraham Lincoln (my other favorite President!), Sixteenth President |
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| Warren G. Harding, Twenty-Ninth President |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Twenty-Eighth President |
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| Millard Fillmore, Thirteenth President |
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| Zachary Taylor, Twelfth President |
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| John Tyler, Tenth President |
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| Harry S. Truman, Thirty-Third President |
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| William Henry Harrison, Ninth President |
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| Gerald Ford, Michigan's Only President, Thirty-Eighth President |
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| James Madison, Fourth President |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Third President |
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| Bill Clinton, Forty-Second President |
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| Jimmy Carter, Thirty-Ninth President |
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| George Washington, First President |
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| Iced Tea Break! |
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| Ronald Reagan, Fortieth President |
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| Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President |
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| Richard Nixon, Thirty-Seventh President |
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| A thought he should drink iced tea! |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower, Thirty-Fourth President |
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| Standing on Europe |
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| James K. Polk, Eleventh President |
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| George W. Bush, Forty-Third President |
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Grover Cleveland, Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth President
(Only President to have non-consecutive terms) |
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| Rutherford B. Hayes, Nineteenth President |
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| Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President |
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| William McKinley, Twenty-Fifth President |
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| Ulysses S. Grant, Eighteenth President |
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| James Garfield, Twentieth President |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Thirty-Second President |
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| Photobomb by A |
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| Chester Alan Arthur, Twenty-First President |
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| Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth President |
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| Herbert Hoover, Thirty-First President |
We went over to Sanford's Grub and Pub to eat. The place is plastered with pictures, license plates and other things. The edges of the rooms are packed with statues and there are at least two old cars hanging from the ceiling. The portions are normal but they are served on platters that are at least three times bigger than necessary. After Sanford's we bought Presidential Sodas at the City of the President's Information Center and headed to Mount Rushmore.
There was a zero percent chance of precipitation. So it rained and hailed. But we still had fun, and got some pictures!
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| Some not-rain |
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| And not-hail |
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| The Mountain |
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| Again |
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| People and Mountain |
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| Mountain |
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| Feet, again... |
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| Mount Rushmore |
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| Color Shift |
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| Black and White |
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| Mount Rushmore, according to Washington |
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| Mount Rushmore, according to Jefferson |
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| Mount Rushmore, according to Roosevelt |
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| Mount Rushmore, according to Lincoln |
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| Bunny, on the forest trail |
We walked down the forest trail, where we saw the bunny and then drove to Custer along the super scenic pigtail road. The beautiful view:
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| Over the hill |
We saw pretty much nothing at Custer. I took a picture of some plants.
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| Plants |
Then, as we were driving back to the cabin, we saw a surprise!
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| Mama and Baby Goat |
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| Baby likes the woods. |
We ate hot dogs at the cabin and went to sleep.
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Chorus of the Day!
Oh Nina
You should go Nina
'Cause I ain't never coming home
In a road, won't you leave me now
And I've been living on the road Nina
And then again you should know Nina
'Cause that's you and me
Both in a road, won't you leave me now
Now
Last Chorus of the Day:
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by The Beatles
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La! ~SCP
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