The end of June means a few free days for our family! We took full advantage of that and went down to the cabin at West Hawk Lake. 

 Every day was good beach weather. 

 Jump 

 and splash! 

 Sonnet loved playing in the sand. For hours at a time she...

 So it is now a couple of weeks since we were at Mount Rushmore, but I can't post everything at once. 

Below is what it looked like when we arrived.  You could really not even tell which way to look. 

But the fog was swept away a couple of times, revealing the...

There was some good stuff and some hard stuff today, but there is beauty in it all. The sun will rise and we'll do it all over again tomorrow. 

We are back from the trip. It was great, but I'm really tired, so no stories for now. But I took a bunch of pictures in the badlands, some of which capture the dramatic landscape.