There's Gold in them there Hills!!

Ok, I have not blogged in a while. Back off people, I have been busy!!! :-)

So I have told everyone about our Pikes Peak adventure, now it is time to tell you about the Panning for Gold that we did. I LOVED that day!!!!! I could have spent all day there and been perfectly content. We go to this place in the mountains called Country Boy Mine. It was founded in 1887 and is one of the oldest and most famous mines in Summit County. ( There, you have learned your history lesson for today.)
ANYWAY, back to me.....
You go inside and pay 9.95 a person to pan for gold as long as you want. You can take a tour for double the price, but I don't like going underground that much either. With freaking out going up Pikes Peak, and not wanting to go down in a gold mine, are ya kinda catching the hint, that I just like to stay on flat ground????
ANYWAY, back to me.....
So, we grab our pans, and off we go. We had been there for maybe 20 or 30 minutes, and Candi and I found some pretty good looking stuff. So we put it in our little vial. The vial is about as big around as a pencil, and about 1 inch long. NOT BIG at all!! Mine and Candi's vial is pictured above.
1 vial equals 1 ounce.
1 ounce of gold equals $1200.00...

Candi and I had our vial about 1/3 full of gold. We were TOTALLY excited!!!!!! Danny, kept saying that we did not have gold, we had pyrite. (fools gold) Well, we were not gonna believe Danny boy, we had the real deal!
After about 3 hours or so, we decided it was time to head back to the hotel with our treasures.
Anthony hadn't really collected anything in his vial. Candi and I were sharing a vial, which was about 1/3 full, and Danny and Bradley were sharing one, which was about 1/4 full.
We take our gold up to the worker to see how we did.
He looked at mine and Candi's and said that all of our gold was.................................

pyrite!!! (fools gold)

Then he took a look at Danny and Bradley's vial, and said it was all pyrite, but................
he said there was 1 teeny weeny itsy bitsy piece of gold. REAL GOLD!!!! Yep, it was found, just not by the girls. The boys found it!!!
It was HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D
So big, that Danny was asking people on facebook if anyone knew of a trustworthy armored vehicle to bring it home with.
Then he was pondering on what to gold plate for me on a ring.... a piece of sand or a piece of salt.

Yep, that's how big it actually was. Just a little teensy weensy bit bigger than a grain of sand. But it was the real deal. So now we can say that we found GOLD!