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Well, you know, after we left Nebraska, we were on our way up to Mount Rushmore and we ended up in Spearfish, South Dakota. It was a scapee's hangout. There was about 30 of us there and around us like that. Well, the first night we get to South Dakota, what happens is, you know, it may not have been a tornado, but we got 70 mile an hour winds came through the RV park. But luckily by that time, you know, being a luxury RV park, you know, you're parked close together, but at least for once I was in between two class A's. So they took the brunt of the winds and everything else like that. My biggest bothersome thing when we have it was being the weird, small 17 foot trailer and, you know, you got the awning over the slide. What I couldn't stand was I couldn't stand the awning slapping against the top of the slide. That terrified me more than the wind shaking the trailer. I mean, I think we're getting smart enough now that when we have high winds, you know, we can pull our slide in and our slide has two theater seats in it. So we can pull our slide in and if we have to, we can just sleep in the theater seats if we have to. I mean, it makes it a little cramp, but it'll work. And I think more and more when we feel high winds, we're just going to pull the slide in. But that slapping of the awning was so bad that last summer I had the awning taken off and I have what's called a crew topper on the top of my awning. But this is the super sweet thing that wipes the top of your slide off and gets everything off. And when it closes, it hangs over the slide and closes it out. I think some tiffins have something similar on it that basically protect the top and the sides of the slide like an overhang. It's like a four inch overhang when it's closed and everything else like that. But I mean, after going to Nebraska, then going to South Dakota and getting the wind kicked out of you again, it was like maybe this is a bad idea to come up to Mount Rushmore. But by the end of the week, we had a spectacular event where the Aurora Burialis came down from Alaska and we spent the entire night and I've got pictures I'm showing to some people. I'll stop for a second. I got the beep. So, okay, we had the Aurora Burialis come over the mountain range and so all night we saw these flares of multicolored lights shooting over the RV park in Spearfish, South Dakota. So, you know, we told the wagon masters, I said, okay, the Aurora Burialis makes up from the scary winds at the beginning of the week kind of thing. So, but that was very spectacular. I mean, they literally come over the mountains and shot right over us and headed south and it ran like that. That year, the southern states had pink skies, but we got to see all different colors coming down from Alaska. So that was an extra special thing when we went to Mount Rushmore in 23. I'll hand it back to the net.