Custer State Park Day 1

We had a friend come to visit us, so we used that as an excuse (finally) to go to Custer State Park. The plan was after church and lunch, to go do both the Needles Loop and the Wildlife Loop, and then go home and eat dinner. Our friend had evening plans, and needed to be at his destination by a quarter to 7. After windy and hilly roads, motion sick gals (not Mom), a hot back seat, realizing that 'driving' was taking much longer then we thought ( like I said, hilly, windy roads, and stopping to take pictures), and running short on time, we turned around and went home instead of finishing the loop. On the way home, as we traveled down and around the road we had just came, we began to smell a, well, a stink. Coming from a car. But we weren't sure if it was our car, or the extremely slow one in front of us. Needless to say, after stopping, popping the hood, and seeing smoke, and the smell getting worse with the slow car no where in site, we decided it was our car. So, instead of continuing to drive on the windy, hilly road, we took the not-so-windy-or-hilly-but-paved-with-dirt 8 mile road.
Point being, Dad went to get brake fluid the next morning, and we went to do the Wildlife Loop the next day, along with lunch in Keystone, Mount Rushmore and a quick stop at Crazy Horse.

I will do will plan on three posts, but since we have school, no telling when they will make in up. :)
The first post will be Custer State Park Day 1. The second post will be Custer State Park Day 2. And the third (because numbers go in that order) will be Keystone, Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse. So, without further ado, Custer State Park, Day 1.

FYI, most of these pictures were taken in the car.

 

Yes, I just used an FYI. Believe it!

There were a total of six one way tunnels like this on the Needles Loop. They were cool, yet scary because on some of them, you couldn't see if a car was coming from the other direction. 

 

 

Those were all pictures of trees and mountains and sky.

 Just in case you couldn't tell...

 

Mmmmeeeeee!!!!!! 

Like I said, they were taken in the car...

 

I'm not good at narrowing it down. That may be good, that may be bad.

  

My brother.

 

 

A not-very-good picture of the Needles Eye. (Hence the Needles Loop)

 

 

Not important mountains. (Come on have some pity! How come they name some, but not others! Every person has a name, why shouldn't every mountain!?!)

^My not so good attempt at a joke. Some are born with it, other, just... aren't.^

 

 

Another one-way, narrow tunnel. (Hint for going through these, the smartest, safest, least embarrassing way is to follow another car through the tunnel. That way, if there is one coming from the other direction, your car doesn't get hit. The only other 'safe' way to do it is to honk your horn really loud, and hope the person coming from the other direction thinks it's a car, not geese.)

 

A cave.

 

 

Would you look at that expression of intent concentration! Doesn't that just blow you away! Ha, not!

Mom's camera is so much better than mine! Would you look at that zoom!!!!

 

Our visitor, little sis, Dad, MOUNTIAN!!!

See the comparison!!! O_o

 

A much, much, MUCH better picture on the Needle's Eye!

 

A random person, rock climbing. Once again, comparison!!!

 

 

Well, I have finally (Yes, I know what you all are saying to yourselves. "Gee, Rebekah! About time don't you think so!" And to answer your question, yes, I do think so know so.), finished Custer State Park Day 1!

 

 

*Note - Unless other wise noted, the only edits (on both this post, and on the blog in general) done to pictures, are rotations, and crops. ( I've included this in the 'Get to Know Me' page)

 

 

Hope you all have enjoyed!

And I will do my best to get Custer Park Day 2 up sooner than this one made it...

But no promises!!!

 

Love,

Rebekah