Tuesday and Wednesday

Thursday we headed up to Virgina City (just north of Carson City NV) which was one of the biggest gold mining towns, apparently. It was pretty fun, very touristy, but they had it all done up like an old west town, with lots of "Saloons" and plenty of Casinos. We took a tram tour around the town and got a crash course in Virgina City history. It was lots of fun, the girls both say it was their favorite part.


We stopped for a rootbeer at Malgoon's Saloon where the girls got to sit up at the bar and all the waitresses made a huge deal out of them and brought them cupcakes and everything. The girls, of course, remained silent. Sophia did eventually say "Thank you". We also toured the Piper Opera house, which was pretty, they still have performances there.
Apparently Bonanza had something to do with Virgina City, the lady who gave us a tour of the Opera House was quite the Bonanza buff.

Today we went way out in the middle of no where on a very narrow and often scary road and found a beautiful waterfall. It runs into Fallen Leaf lake, which was also quite lovely. Faron had us climbing all over the place at the falls, we climbed down on the rocks until we were right at the bottom of the falls, I was nervous with all the kids there, but it was great.