a whirlwind in the black hills

as you all know, i'm terrified of bears.  Shawn made us stop in at bear country USA---it's in the black hills, south Dakota.  and for all of you who saw Shawn's bear pic on his facebook....well, we took it while we were safe in the car at bear country (a ride-through animal park).  after bear country and being horrified at the size of those things, we had a few more stops before reaching Yellowstone park, or "Bear Country."
  We got to visit crazy horse and mount Rushmore.   Crazy horse was pretty cool...it's a Native American who is pointing out over the land (it's not as finished as i thought it would be.)  Mount Rushmore was pretty amazing:)  After Rushmore, we visited the wind cave....  Shawn wanted to do the crawl-through tour, but alas, i'm pretty claustrophobic, so we just did the regular tour.  The wind cave was super huge and fascinating.  the photos weren't great bc it was so dark.  but we had good fun!

                                         so cute.  makes me think of the jungle book:)