Sandusky to Chicago and on

Well to tell the true we are now in Yellowstone but will get back to that later.

After an earlier Morning start we headed out of sandusky, got back onto the I90 and headed west, to tell the truth the drive was not that exciting so we drove along the waterfront heading into Chicago. We got to the hotel and checked in then walked into town and showed Aaron around things we had seen, like the bean.
After wondering in town we went back to the hotel had a break and then walked to the John Hancock building Where Sarah and I left Aaron to go up, we headed off and found something for dinner, Just had to try a deep dish pizza, it was alright but had had better.

The next day we had another early start to get out of Chicago before the traffic got to bad, We were heading for Sioux Falls, one of the biggest drives we had.
Once we got passed all the toll roads out of Chicago things were good just a straight run west again. The drive west headed away from the hills and into the flat lands, with the biggest thing we saw being the upper Mississippi, we dropped down from the flat lands into the river basin and then back up to the flat lands
again. The other thing we saw were lots of wind turbines I mean lots.
Once we checked into the hotel we decided to look around town and went to grand Sioux falls, the name was bigger than the falls turned out to be.

Once again we were up early and again heading west today's destination was Rapid city and the black mountains.
On the way to rapid we decided to go look at a corn castle, was not that good.
We drove past corn fields sunflowers and just grass. One thing we all noticed was that south Dakota is flat really flat. In this state we crossed the Missouri River.
We decided to take a detour through the bad lands and look at all the neat formations, we took lots of pictures and then carried on to Rapid city checked in and then headed into the black mountains and Crazy horse and the Rushmore monuments.
The crazy horse monument will be amazing when it is finished but has a bit more to go.
From there we headed back to the mount Rushmore monument, we walked around and did a walk below the bottom on the monument before having something to eat and then watching the lighting of the monument for night. Rushmore was amazing to actually see it in person instead of pictures or tv.