Vacation...Over.

Sadly, my vacation is over. Now it's just Scout Camp. On my vacation we went through Wyoming into South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore, and saw Wind cave, and Jewel Cave. It was exciting! Going into a cave is sort of scary at first, but, after a while, I forgot completely that we were underground!
If you want to see stalactites, and stalagmites, then this is not the place to be. There is mostly cave formations such as popcorn, box work, nail head spars, and dog tooth spars. However I think that the stuff in Wind Cave and Jewel Cave are just as exciting as stalactites and stalagmites.
I got tons of good pictures of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. It was also very fun to see the very same mountain you see on the movies. It was a very good area to practice the rule of thirds (If you know what that means) on my camera.
Last Monday, we went to a Mormon Pioneer Memorial right next to Devils gate. We got to hike up to Martin's Cove and back pulling a covered handcart. It was amazingly tiring, and I don't know how the pioneers did it! Yesterday, on our way home, we stopped by there again, and got a chance to see the reenactment of the Pony Express Trail. There were horses ridding down that trail. I got a pamphlet that talked about the Trail. It also had a map of where the riders would have ridden.
Over all, I had a good vacation. Now just for Scout Camp....