Day 12 - Estes Park and on to South Dakota

 We had a leisurely morning at the YMCA, Mal and Aidan went on an early morning hike, Jeremy and I walked up to the main lodge for coffee and the others got some much needed rest.  It was around this time that it was mentioned that the brakes were feeling a bit off.  Actually, I think it had been mentioned earlier that during the drive through Boulder the brakes were "mushy."  Knowing this we headed into the town of Estes to do some shopping, checking things out around town and a bit of a break inventory. 













Here we have the side by side of Mal's face while Aidan and Jer assess the break issue and another of Aidan and Jer making sure we were all good up front...
The Consensus is to carry on... and so we left Estes Park and headed of to South Dakota and Mount Rushmore.  On the way out we saw some pretty awesome stuff:





And we decided to meet up at the Welcome Center in Loveland, CO  




Meg and Cowboy got a lock and put it on the Love sigh outside of the Welcome Center.  I believe that Ginny and Michael did the same, I just didn't get a pic of it. 

And here we see Mal and Aidan and the ticket that Aidan got when he ran a red light, not on purpose mind you, he was following the bus in the little blue car.  In the little blue car he could not see that the light had changed from yellow to red behind the bus.  Oops.  
Traffic ticket wounds now licked, we were back on the road.






The sun was beating down on the bus Ginny, Michael, and Willa had to take drastic measures with the blankets 

And before we knew it we were at Mount Rushmore: 









As the sun set we left Mount Rushmore for our lodgings for the night in Rapid City, SD.  Good night Day 12.








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