Colorado Trip Begins (Keystone, SD)

Today we started off our Black Hills/Colorado vacation. After working the morning, we took off towards Keystone, SD. After stopping for an awesome burger at Al's Oasis for lunch, we hit Keystone in time to go to the President's Slide, which essentially has us riding up in a ski lift chair to an area that has a nice view of Mt. Rushmore and a burger, brat and beer place, then you ride down the hill on a wheeled cart. While the ski lift wasn't my favorite part of the day (I haaate heights), admittedly after the ride through the hills with my wife driving, it seemed...less scary.

We then shopped around Keystone and had a great dinner on the boardwalk at a place where the women dressed up like cowboy women of ill repute (I'm sure I'll eventually remember what we ate and drank), went mini-golfing, and came back to the hotel room to finally rest.

Tomorrow, we do an old time photo, maybe Mt. Rushmore, Jewel Cave, and then we take off for Greeley, CO (where I was born) to visit my grandma and aunt and uncles. Saturday we head off to Fall River Road and Estes Park, CO and then do family stuff until we come home on Monday.

I doubt I'll have any net connection until then, but I'll keep stuff written down if and when I can and post it when I get back to civilization.