How big is big

Lured in by the signs for  a 99 cents all you can eat cowboy pancake breakfast Fort Hays was the first stop of the morning.  True to its word there was sort of  a chuck wagon set up, be it indoors though, and all the pancakes one could eat. Unfortunately nothing else to go along with them.  However, much to our surprise the whole place was the Fort Hays set from the movie Dances with Wolves.

  We had to check the place out. Now I will have to watch  the movie when I get back home to see it on the screen.  The area has been the setting for a number of movies that I'm going to check out to see it all in action.

'Christmas village" caught our attention of course, an hour later we had managed to see all that they had, mostly in the way of ornaments, this of course led to more planning possibilities.

Today we saw the main goal of the trip, the Crazy Horse monument.  This thing is so big that all of the faces on Mount Rushmore -the entire carved area will fit into the area of Crazy Horses head.  Each blasting of rock takes 2-3 days to remove the rubble, but of course its 200 dump trucks loads.  We spent a few hours and a few dollars via the gift store at the sight.  The carving just dominates the area it is quite impressive.

Both of us are getting a bit tired from the constantly being on the go and took it a bit easier in the evening.  A word for the kids- are plans have changed due to car rentals being almost impossible to get and very expensive.  Dee Dee will be flying out of Rapid City Tuesday and I will be heading home with a stop over in Spokane to see the folks. I'm hoping to be home Thursday.  Mom will still fly back next Wed.