05/12/2007 Dead Presidents and Soccer Moms

Since it was clearly a “down” day, we decided to visit several southwest South Dakota and northeast Wyoming attractions, including Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Deadwood, and Devils Tower. We ended the day in Sheridan, WY. Unfortunately for us, the town was hosting a giant soccer tournament (apparently the heir to the M&M/Mars Candy Bar fortune has built an extremely large soccer facility south of Sheridan). This tournament, and the hundreds of kids and soccer moms, led to a difficult motel situation. [Name removed b/c of crybaby culture that permeates our society] eventually landed us an overpriced room at a Best Western. The room had no working A/C; however, after a bit of complaining, we were able to secure a box fan and keep the door open all night to ventilate (and hear, with resounding racket, the trains at 3:30 AM and every 30 minutes thereafter). We ended up drinking beers and cooking burgers on the 2^nd floor ledge, which overlooked the Dairy Queen drive thru. Apparently soccer moms and their children love Dairy Queen because there were never less than 12 cars in line for Blizzards all night long. We eventually retired with dreams of Montana wedges for Sunday … yeah right.

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