Devil's Tower and Not Mount Rushmore

After leaving the badlands, we started driving the (relatively) short distance to Mount Rushmore. Just as we were about to take the exit for Rushmore, we saw a sign for Sturgis. We thought about it for all of two seconds, then kept on going for Sturgis. Seriously, a historical national monument of something or other, or a renown biker town? We grabbed a postcard of Rushmore while we were at Wall Drug, so we had all we needed. 

We made an excellent decision. We stopped at the Sturgis Coffee Company and got amazing coffee and got rung up by a little kid that yelled "I did it!!" as he finished the transaction. The shop roasted their beans onsite, so it smelled like heaven and they had gorgeous handmade jewelry that we regretfully could not afford.

I want to make sweet, sweet love to this.

We stuck around for way too long, then went to a liquor store down the street and grabbed some wine for when we arrived in Yellowstone and left for Devil's Tower.

Devil's Tower was a tower. We took pictures. There are more, but it's kind of...a tower? Of rock. A rocky tower. Whee!

Oh my God. It's a tower.

I used the opportunity of a stop to wash my face, and brush my teeth, and wash my clothes in the only sink there while other women went to the bathroom and just left without a word. THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND.

Anyway, Pandarilla also enjoyed the tower. Pandarilla is a build-a-bear that we made in attempt to emulate Nikki's picture (on the right). We couldn't find the right clothes and the dollar store wig that we purchased at the beginning of the trip had shed all over the car because Angie tried to cut it, so it went in the trash. In this picture, my cell phone is propping her up on the car. Do you see where this is going yet?

Not seen: my cell phone and lens cap behind Pandarilla

Yeep, left it on the car. But! It was still there! And so was the lens cap! High five!!

Speaking of high fives, we have this thing where we high five everything. Corn five, leaving shitcago five, survival five, awesome decision five, etc. (This is important later. Well, not to you, but to us, and this is our blog. So there.)

We pulled over as we were leaving Devil's Tower to cook Spongebob Mac' n' cheese and discovered this smoke ring thing that I guess is some kinda art installation thing. I took obligatory pictures.

Keepin' it classy.

Back to the Spongebob. We had been pining, craving, starving, absolutely couldn't concentrate on anything else besides finally making our macaroni. Then we discovered that the cable to our burner was too short to run from the car safely. After briefly considering using the burner IN the car regardless, we found some outlets! YAY! ...GODDAMMIT, they were halfway up the wall and also too short. After we made eyes at the picnic tables and thought about stacking them up, we gave up and left. 

Goodbye, Devil's tower. Thanks for the bath. You suck for having outlets halfway up the wall.