The day we arrived at Mount Rushmore it was cold, cold, cold. There was a bitter wind blowing too. We had not brought coats with us (late October in South Dakota? come on, we're from Minnesota, we don't need no stinkin' coats...)...so the kids doubled up on sweatshirts and we sucked it up. It was certainly bearable, though my decision to wear shorts was questionable. SEVERAL people made comments about the shorts and I continued to stick by my story...it was that, or dig back into the suitcase, and that was not going to happen. Well, so it goes. We probably would have spent more time there and done a hike around the monument but really, it was cold!! We came, we saw, we ran back to the car. All in a good day's work.
