Friday, May 29, 2009

Silver Reef Ghost Town 1

Little Ster Ster looking quite forlorn in the musuem.
We must have eaten some chocolate or something, oh, maybe it was the yummy mulberries!
Abby and Buster in a bucket.
Mmm, Sterling couldn't get enough of the mulberries from this huge tree in front of the museum.
Us squeezed in the little bank safe that we told the kids was the jail where they would get locked up in if they touched anything.  They were really good and had fun looking at all the old pioneer stuff in the museum.  Everything looked so small to us except for the guns and tools.  We had a really good time.  We also visited the pioneer cemetery which had a lot of baby and young child graves that made me tear up just thinking about how hard life was back then.  This Silver Reef Mine was the only place in the world where they've ever gotten silver out of sandstone and they removed about 2 million dollars worth within about 20 years.  Many famous outlaws lived or visited there and there were no Mormons.  It was all very interesting and a fun family outing.

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