Went to bed early, around 9 or so, to be awakened at noon by Cooper and Tina rustling around, because I was snoring, she had to go out and get him some earplugs. I had trouble getting back to sleep, and dozed on and off for the rest of the night, finally getting up around 0410- showered, then we got over to GSP so far so good
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| The hotel |
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| Overhead of GSP |
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| 0620 take off! |
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| Airport take off weather
We got into DFW pretty much on time, a rare for us, our take off gate was only 4 gates down from our arrival gate. We were actually delayed about 20 minutes taking off from DFW- they explained it as "waiting for baggage"- that turned out to be not entirely correct- as it turns out, our luggage was missing when we arrived in Rapid City- according to the gate agent there, they "had a weight and balance problem with the plane and arbitrarily removed some luggage-
Overhead of the DFW airport-
Our plane waiting to take off, without it turns out, our luggage
Take off weather at DFW
We spent a pretty frustrating day in Rapid City, trying vainly to get information about the bags, where they were, when they would arrive, etc. The baggage agent had a bit of an attitude, primarily because of another person who was giving him one- He handed me a paper with a phone number and a web address with a secret code number to follow up with. I called/entered several times throughout the day, and was told everytime that the luggage was still lost-
Finally at 6 pm, Cooper and I went back to the airport to check, and we got a hold of an Allegant Air baggage dude who was able to tell me that the luggage was found, and that it was scanned to arrive on the 820 pm plane- and it did- The fellow delivered it to our hotel room about 915 that night-
We decided to go ahead and head to Mt Rushmore even though the weather was not looking good- It wound up thunder storming and raining cats and dogs- but I got stamps- we blew off our other plans for the day, which was to go by Crazy Horse memorial and Custer state park
Overhead of Rapid City Airport 
Airport View
Indoor Pool view of our hotel- Cooper did the slide about 30 times!
Mt Rushmore before the sculpting:
  Mt. Rushmore in the Driving rain- ugh   |
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