Another beautiful morning in Custer State Park. Yesterday Eric and I were busy campers again. We went to Jewel Cave National Monument, because we can never pass up a cave. The tour was taxing for us (over 700 stairs) but beautiful -- gorgeous formations.
Then we went to see the Crazy Horse monument (in progress). It was more interesting than I'd anticipated. On one hand, what they're doing to that mountain is pretty gross. On the other hand, the scope of the project is sort of fascinating, and the Native American museum and information center were good. I bought a book about Crazy Horse and the battle of Little Big Horn. The first half was annotated and scholarly. The second half...? A conspiracy theory: The Federal Reserve and a 10-person Jewish banking cartel really caused the battle of Little Big Horn to happen. Wow.
Again & again on this trip we are reminded of how the Native Americans were royally screwed by "Manifest Destiny"... which is Christianity, in case you weren't paying attention in 8th grade history. What I found admirable about the Crazy Horse monument is the inscription they plan to put on it... in huge letters... which essentially says, "Oh no you DIDN'T!"
Then we went for a swim. Then we had dinner.
Then we went to see Guys and Dolls. Honestly!
There's a professional/teaching theater here in the park. It's craziness! The whole gang lives here in the summer, in an old camp that used to house the CCC. All summer long it's, "hey, kids, let's put on a show!' And they did!
I love a big dance number!
Today we're headed out to Wind Cave, Mt. Rushmore, and we hope to find some buffalo on the way.
Eric's ready to head out, so off we go.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment