Yea, that's Mt. Rushmore. Can't see it? That's because there's fog covering the entire thing. I felt really bad because there were tons of people who came thousands of miles to visit, and they legitimately could not see anything. Well, I felt bad for some people... not the people who demanded that the park rangers remove the fog for them... (You can't make this stuff up.) Some people actually expected us to somehow blow the fog away from the faces. (Insert blow joke here).
So as I mentioned before, there are these mountain goats that just kind of roam around the park grounds... they are pretty docile unless you really provoke them. Yesterday, this woman--desperate to get a picture of her 7 year old daughter with a mountain goat--PUSHES her daughter into the goat. Dumb. This is not the Mt. Rushmore Petting Zoo. Luckily this goat didn't gore the girl like one did up in Montana a few years ago.
My last anecdote of the day has to do with that awesome Hitchcock film "North by Northwest" that takes place at Mt. Rushmore... actually the film USED to be awesome, but it has been playing on a loop in the information center every day for the past week, I can now quote 95% of the entire movie. "I had nothing to do that weekend, so I decided to fall in love." "That's funny; that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops." "Patience is a virtue; so is breathing."
JAKWWW! i love you and your blog. its hysterical. remember when we went to los cabos? that was fun and i want to do it again if youre ever in connecticut again and not on your wild adventures of south dakota (:
ReplyDeleteoh my god, i can't believe that fog. and, in my experience as an orientation leader, i totally believe that people expected you to remove it for them. so, what do you actually do? do they get their money back or a rain check or something like at yankee stadium?
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