WOW! What a day yesterday was. We drove to Wind Cave National Park (about 35 miles south of us) and had planned to take the 1 hour easy Garden of Eden guided tour in one of the cave’s open rooms. However, they had not started that tour yet and the only one available was the 1 1/2 hour one with 300 stairs. Well, I decided to try it and I made it, but it was tough. Not only were there stairs, mostly down (about 260 feet down into the cave), but in some places it was wet and the paved walkway was not level – it went up and down. And even though it was lit, it was still very hard to see in there in some places. I was afraid I was going to slip and fall. It was a constant 54 degrees – everyone else had on jackets – I was sweating. I’m glad we did it, but once was enough. We had planned to hike one of the trails when we came out of the cave, but that didn’t happen! It’s called Wind Cave because of the difference in the barometric pressure in the cave and outside – depending upon the weather the natural opening of the cave will blow wind out or suck wind in. And oh, there was an elevator back up! I asked to be on the second load of 10 – I was ready for terra firma! Yesterday was the first day after being out and exploring that I took a pain pill and I laid down and rested when we got back. We did see a lot more bison, deer, pronghorns, and prairie dogs. It’s about 4:30 PM here and around 12:00 PM, we started hearing thunder. It had gotten hot yesterday afternoon and this morning – we even had the ac running before the clouds rolled in. It started raining about an hour ago and about 30 minutes ago it started hailing – it is almost pitch black outside. Our weather radio is in the truck, but it’s hailing too hard to get it. Hope we don’t get blown away. Our camping neighbors had left earlier to go hiking – hope they are okay.
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