Vacation continued

July 4

On the way to Ennis/Virginia City we saw a horse drive across the highway.

Virginia City

 

 The Candy Store in VC before the fireworks

 Gathering on the Courthouse Lawn to watch the fireworks

Vacation continued

July 3

We went to Crystal Park and dug for some crystals.

 Brandon is holding some of the crystals that we found.

 This is after we finished digging.

 This cabin was at the Lupine Day Use area.  Fred was facinated with it.

Later in the afternoon we went to Coolige Ghost Town.

Fred was getting ready to take some pics.

 Inspector Brandon checking on the bridge that was out.



FAMILY VACATION - JULY 1 THROUGH JULY 7, 2011

July 1

After work on Friday, we went to Lewis and Clark Cavern State Campground.

 We went to a Ranger program - "Songs We Used to Sing"

There was a booklet of about 24 cowboy songs that we all sang along with (or tried to anyway)

 After that we roasted marshmellows and hotdogs.

 July 2

We toured the Lewis and Clark Caverns on Saturday.  It was pretty interesting and in some spots kinda tricky to get through.

 We had to hike up about 1/2 mile up the cliff behind this building just to get to the entrance of the cavern.

 Inside the caverns we had to climb up 100 steps and down 500, duck walk, duck and twist sideways just to get through.

 That afternoon we drove to our next campsite in the Pioneer Mountains with plans to go to Crystal Park the next day.  So that night Fred taught us how to do the "train whistle" like Papa used to do.

 Fred is just acting silly here.  Not really - he actually has to do this to whistle :)

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