we made it home.... for those of you that i had not told my mom and Joe invited myself and the kids to go on a little RV trip with them to one of their favorite vacation spots..
Virginia City Montana!!!! Wooo Hoo!!!! i can honestly say that this not a spot i had known excited. just a little place about 2 blocks long in the middle of nothing. a ghost town if you will. this is not what my kids would consider a exciting place to go but we all had a great time. it is amazing to me how going to such a place with so little we where able to have such a great time and create many wonderful memories. that is what its all about. the little things that mean so much. i have learned from this vacation that we could have camped in the RV 2 blocks from home and had created wonderful memories and bonded as a family. it is truly about being together that its all about. that's all that matters.
our first stop on the way was at mesa falls. it is beautiful!!! it amazes me that in the middle of a canyon off the side of the road you can find such peace and beauty.
in this little town of Virginia city their is a museum that has all sorts of old time houses, stores, saloons etc... it is here that you could get a taste of what it was like to live a hundred years ago. the kids had a wonderful time in the saloon playing a hand of poker and they even had a spity thing for Denver to spit his sunflower seeds into. just like the olden days.
and yes we panned for gold!!!! i never would have thunk that it was such a task to do this. a little harder than we had anticipated.
a little shake shake shake and a little spray spray spray and then off to the troff to jiggle jiggle jiggle and rinse rinse rinse( i forgot to add a pic of this process)
and then off to the table to pick out the garnets and the gold. lets just say that there are a lot more garnets than gold, however we where successful and did come home with 2 or 3 flecks of gold. we can all truly say that we got a real taste of the olden days. and i must add i think i kinda liked the simplicity of it all.
well partners that was a little about our vacation. check back later ya all. that's just part 1.
thanks grannie and grandpa for showing us a good time and sharing with us one of your favorite vacation spots. we love you to the moon and back.
*just a little side note: you can use the restroom while driving down the road in a RV. this is not only very cool but it is very hard to do as well.
*just a little side note: you can use the restroom while driving down the road in a RV. this is not only very cool but it is very hard to do as well.
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