Friday, August 14, 2009

Virginia City

Another fun Saturday outing was to Virginia City!  It is an old mining boom town that turned into a ghost town and now has been set up as a pretty sweet tourist attraction.  We had fun looking at a sweet steam engine (we missed a chance to ride it to another Ghost Town, Nevada City).  We got to see a cool museum, peeked in windows at lots of old stuff, checked out restored buildings, and read lots of interesting facts about the history of the town, what hte buildings were used for, and how vigilantes ran the town. It used to have like 10,000 residents and now has less than 150!  It was a fun and interesting little visit!   
Jack and mommy by the steam engine!
Jack staring at an old gold miner in one of the stores!
Jack and Daddy by lots of weird stuffed animals.
Me by a sweet old wagon.
Dustin doing his classic pose (which Jack also naturally always does)!  
Jack and mommy hanging out by an old newspaper building.  
A cool view of the street and a horse and carriage!  Everything looked so neat!
Jack climbing on some stairs to peek in a window.
Jack, Daddy, and a nice indian fellow!
Jack posing by a kind of creepy old building.

Jack running away from the creepy building! What a cutie!
Dustin and Jack by the steam engine.  
This is just one view of the beautiful place we live!  Gotta love Big Sky Country! :)

1 comment:

amyorr said...

Fun! We went last Saturday. We should have coordinated. Did you go to the candy store? Score.