Thursday, August 7th

Today was a great day weather wise.  No rain.  Went to see the Corn Palace today.  Our luck, this year they are doing a renovation of The Palace.  It is still open, but it is not as Walt & I remembered it.  You can Google it and see what it used to look like and what it will look like when it is finished.  Everyone forgot their camera's today, so after we had dinner we went back to take pictures. Thank you Bob, for going back for us to take the pictures.  They are taking the spheres down and are going to be putting up new ones.  I think the new ones will be nice, but we did not see them, only pictures.  I have put a picture below of the old one, sitting on the street in front of the building.  The other pictures are of the murals that are done on the outside with ears of corn.  All the material in the pictures are made of different colors of corn.  The frames around them are rye grass and some other plant.  Don't remember but I read somewhere.  They are redone every year and will be replaced shortly with the new ones as the corn is ready.  I have included pictures of the pattern for the 2 new ones that they have up so far. So the pictures below are of the old and the soon to be new one.

Old sphere in front of the Corn Palace

2014 Theme - Remember When and 2015 to be done        

From back of building to front

Pattern for 2015-Steeamboat

2015-Cowboy on Horse

My Favorite

2nd Favorite

Tomorrow we leave for the Badlands and will be there for 4 nights and 3 full days.  Will post pictures from there as we can.  Oh yes, was talking to someone at The Palace tonight when we were taking pictures and they had just been out in Yellowstone and stopped in Deadwood SD on the way back, not realizing that the Sturgis motorcycle rally was on and they tried to get a hotel room.  They could have had one if they wanted to pay $709.00, yes that is the right figure, to stay one night in a hotel room.  Sure glad our plans for this area are for after the rally should be over.  I sure wouldn't want to be anywhere near this place next year, it will be the 75th Anniversary of The Sturgis Rally.