After a wonderful week with my cousin and her family, it was time to head home and make the long journey 1700 miles east. We decided instead of taking two days to get back, we would split it up into three days, eight hours long. I think the kids were just not ready to be in the car that long again. So...the first night we stayed in Sheridan, WY, home of Buffalo Bill and the Big Horn Mountains. It really was quite pretty there, but rained a lot and was cold. Unfortunately, we got in too late to head over to Little Big Horn battlefield, so we had to miss that attraction. I'm sure the kids really wouldn't get the significance of a giant open field. Next time. Our next stop was to get to Sioux Falls, SD for the night and we decided to check out Devils Tower National Monument on our way there. This is a place that I thought I would never in my life get to see, so I was all for the two hour detour to get there. It is known as the 'first national monument' because it is so old being made out of volcanic rock. Just like with Mount Rushmore, the sheer enormity of it makes you stop and look. You just don't expect to see this 1200 foot rock formation to pop out of the prairie. The kids were utterly in shock to see it as well, they couldn't believe their eyes. When we told them the Lakota Indian legend of how the rock was formed, I think they were blown away. The legend goes that a hunting party was in the woods nearby and seven girls were lost looking for berries. At that moment, huge bear started to chase the girls and they prayed to the rock they were on to save them. That's when the rock started to rise up to the heavens. The striations on the side of the tower is where the bear's claws tried to reach the girls. They were fated to stay forever and the constellation Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) is their spot in the heavens. Isn't that a neat story? Here are the pictures to prove we were there:
Did you see this last pic? Those little dots in the middle are people climbing the tower! Unbelievable.
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