Black Hills- Day 4

This was the last day of the trip.  We were only in South Dakota for a few hours before we needed to head home.  We decided to do two things. We went to Cosmos Mystery Area and to Dakota Stone's Rock Shop.


Cosmos is a place where they 'claim' the gravitational pull is off. There, we were shown all sorts of experiments to dazzle our minds, and confuse our senses.  There we say water run up hill, people change height right before our very eyes, and no one was able to stand up straight.

R was used for an experiment, and was told that if he lied, it wouldn't work. He was then asked a series of questions, one of them being if he had a girlfriend.  He said he did, and we were shocked.  Later that day he recanted everything he said.

We stopped at the Rock Shop for R. He is our rock hound.  The kids were able to look at all sorts of rocks, and even 'pan' for gems. 

S and R 'mined' for gems, 1T and 2T were too cool to do it, so they just browsed the shops.  S and R each ended up with a bag full of gems. It was a gold mine for them.

On our way home, we drove by Devil's Tower.  It is quite interesting that mountain is just out in the middle of nowhere. 

I think we had a good trip, and wore the kids out.