Majestic, Awesome, Amazing! (Days 26-28 -- a.m.)

Breakfast overlooking Mt. Rushmore -- that's what happened on Saturday morning this week. I suppose it might be more accurate to say that Mt. Rushmore overlooked us as we ate breakfast at the restaurant which sits in the visitors area beneath the majestic, awesome, truly amazing carving of four of our greatest presidents.

With Neil's sister, Bunnie, we drove the 20 miles from her lovely new home in Rapid City to Mt. Rushmore on Saturday morning, which dawned clear and crisp and beautiful. The wind was blowing, but the view was tremendous as we gazed up at the most magnificent carving of all time, in my opinion.

When you stop to think what it must have been like to hang, suspended over that gigantic expanse of granite, carving this massive monument with small chiseling tools all those years ago, it is hard to believe that Mt. Rushmore was ever completed. There were many, many brave men who worked together to create this National Monument, and we were humbled and awed as we gazed up at it in the wild and beautiful surroundings of the Black Hills of South Dakota.