Day 4 Badlands and Mt. Rushmore

On the fourth day, we went to the Badlands. That is a series of a lot of mountains. It is fun to climb them, but it can be very dangerous because there are rattlesnakes and rockslides. My mom and I climbed the hills. Even though they looked crumbly, they weren't.
TIP: If you want to go to the Badlands, you should plan to stay there at least one whole day. It is fun and there are a lot of places to stop and climb. One of the trails we went on had a whole bunch of fossils in glass cases right where they were dug up. It tells about the dinosaur the fossil came from and shows a picture of it.

From there, we drove to Mount Rushmore. The faces were HUGE! Everybody was snapping away at pictures and waving at each other and you got to meet many people. When it got dark, a ranger came out and he asked for every person that had ever been in any branch of the military to come down after the movie. We watched the movie...it was a nice movie to watch about the creation of Mt. Rushmore. When the movie was done, my grandpa went down because he is an Army veteran. They took down the flag and put it away. Everybody clapped at least 20 times. I am proud of my grandpa. After that, the park ranger said, "Even though the speed limit is 15, you should drive slower because this is when the night animals come out, like the mama and baby big horn sheep." And that was the end of the fourth day.