Our last full-day in Colorado, we drove to Cripple Creek to get a few last tourist-y things under our belt. The weather was gorgeous and the views were continually incredible as we rode through one of the mining town's oldest railways with our little dumplings. Afterwards, we went on an official gold-mine tour (1000 feet underground!) and thankfully had a much better time than on our lantern tour a few days earlier (even though Emily was still very nervous the entire time!). It was such a great way to wind down before heading to Tonya & Stephen's for the night (and gave us lots to talk about while sitting in traffic for a million years!).
Useful butt shot! ;P
Views from the train.
And R3 was enjoying every damn minute of it.
We had to wait a hot minute for our gold-mine tour to begin, and fortunately there was a lot of old crap to look at! ;P
When we finally got underground, we had such a wonderful young tour guide. He was probably 24 years old and gave tours of the mine during his "time off" from his real job (as a miner!). He was so enthusiastic and knowledgable, and was so sweet to R3 and Sadie who asked 90% of the questions during the tour. ;) This used to be a functioning mine, so there was lots of history and demonstrations to give you the full experience.
Sadie, playing with the "dust on the wall!" We then found out it's a pretty powerful laxative, which thankfully freaked her out. ;P
The green streaks are copper!
Took a small ride while we were there.
Views from below, where miners used to climb up and do their thing.
See those purple streaks? Follow that, and you have gold. :)
Emily may have been glued to her Da's hips the entire time, but she was very excited to her very old gold ore piece!
Rose gold flats in a gold mine!
Pretty psyched I got pictures of all of us 1000ft below the surface! ;P
You may think you know what this is...
Something for Da to mess around with! ;P
