Fourteen Games of Euchre Later...

After leaving Moab, we took a scenic drive through Colorado, stopping in Golden for dinner (and to visit the local library). The mountains in Colorado were very pretty and we must have gone pretty high, because there was snow on the ground at our level. We could have stopped and had a snowball fight...if we weren't in the middle of the highway. There were also some fun orange tunnels and we got to watch the Colorado river and comment on the size of the rapids.

We made it to Wyoming late Monday night, too late for ice cream, but not too late for bananas. ;) (Sorry, inside joke.) Anyway, that meant our goal yesterday was to find an ice cream place in Wyoming, which turned out to be harder than it sounds. We had to drive through several towns before we finally found The Hop, nearly on the border. They were serving huckleberry ice cream, which is apparently a regional thing, since I don't think I've seen it at home, but is everywhere out here. After our stop, we continued on to South Dakota, and the main attraction for some of our companions.

And there it was...four faces on the mountain. We took some pictures, then hid out in the museum while it thunderstormed and hailed. We got to watch a movie on the making of the sculpture and memorized nearly everything in the museum. And then it stopped raining and we were able to leave. We decided not to stay for the lighting ceremony, since we were all pretty hungry and it wasn't for another 3 hours. Instead, we came and found our campsite at Custer's Gulch. We started a fire and roasted sausages and later, Jiffy Pop.