My Bad...

I forgot to blog about the Bad Lands, which we were actually at before Mt. Rushmore. So here's the post now.

Now, when we first got there it was quite rainy and extremely windy...if you can't tell by the look of our hair and faces in the picture.

But yet, it was a lovely sight...almost like being at the Grand Canyon, just with a little more variety of color.

Here, i think the wind was too strong for Kelsey so she had to stay turned around. (when we smiled for the picture we had to face the wind...it was actually pretty hard!)


It eventually began to clear up soon and was becoming a nice day. Actually, we were all (i think) praying quite hard for it to become nice in order to see fireworks at Mt. Rushmore this night, but we didn't realize what other plans God had in store for us that afternoon....

He wanted us to see His lovely creation of reptiles. (you can tell where this is going...) And let me tell you, it scared us to death!! :O literally. We were walking up this small path way and we turn to out left and see a gardinish area. Kelsey sees a snake in it but her first reaction is to think of it as a rubber snake. "But wait......." she realized. We were out in the wide open west, in the Bad Lands for crying out loud!! Surely people won't purposely put a rubber snake into a garden just to scare tourists out of their mind...or worse, the Bad Lands park itself!! Moments later we realized it. My first and gut reaction was to RUN AWAY but then i realized that it's not everyday i see snakes. I go a step closer (still like 6 feet away), snap a picture and then turn around running down the pathway back to where we came from. Yes, of course there was some screaming involved and Kirsten had a fall down the stairs....ha! But the real crazy and unexpected thing was what happened to my mom. We think she turned around too fast and hit/bent her finger on the railing...it was crooked and hurt badly. Scared for any more future encounters w/ reptiles or weird animals during the rest of the tour around the Bad Lands, we decided we needed to go back to the hotel and go get my mom to the ER b/c the finger looked like it could be broken. They dropped us back at the hotel and my dad took her to the hospital which they were there for a good 3 hours. But, that left us girls happy watching Disney Channel and on the internet. Sooo....there you have it. Our story why fireworks didn't work out. But truth be told, we heard they were a dud b/c it began to get cloudy & foggy out and all you could see was faintly lit up clouds. Ha- God ended up giving us a better day at Mt. Rushmore anyways and we ended up seeing fireworks in town the next night (4th of July) which you could actually see! :) Thankyou God!!

Me...showing off God's glory....actually, i'm not showing it off...that wouldn't be right. I'm just adding to it!!! ;) (there's a little bit of bugeyes mind set in every post!!)lol
Jump for joy at the Bad Lands!! :)

Lovely, lovely.

Look!! i could actually touch the top!! :O wooo..... i guess my arms felt super stretchy that afternoon!!ha. (ok, that was lame!) But notice my parents in the background...it looks like they are in a very intense discussion...if you know what i mean!!lol

"For by Him all things were created, both in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or power, or rulers, or authorities-all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things and through Him all things hold together" ~Colossians 1:16-17