Countdown to South Dakota

In one week we will be on the road to see one of our nation's greatest landscapes.  I'm getting very excited for our adventure!!!

Then to add to the fun, I showed Luke what the back of the mountain looks like.  (this picture has been around for awhile now, but I think it's still funny and clever)

Mt. Rushmore Facts:

http://www.mountrushmoreinfo.com/

• Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 5,725-foot mountain in 1927, at the age of 60.
• Creation of the Shrine of Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million.
• Rushmore's granite faces tower 5,500 feet above sea level.
• The carvings on Mount Rushmore are scaled to men who would stand 465 feet tall.
• Each head on Mt. Rushmore is as tall as a six-story building.
• More that 800 million pounds of stone were removed from Mount Rushmore while carving the presidents.
• Each president's face is as tall as the entire Great Sphinx of Egypt, measuring 60 feet from the chin to the top of the head.
• The president's noses are 20 feet long, each mouth 18 feet wide and the eyes are 11 feet across.
• The workers had to climb 506 steps daily to get to the top of Mount Rushmore.