We had found out the night before that the waterpark didn't open until 11 and that gave us plenty of time to tour around Kellogg (you can't get too lost in a town this small).
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| The cemetery is on Pressley Rd (not the same spelling but still kind of neat) |
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| Loved the entrance of the cemetery |
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We had thought about bringing fresh flowers but didn't want to them to die and look bad before someone could come and replace with fresh ones again. I'm not sure who placed these here, but the cemetery had lots of flowers left over from Memorial Day. All the other internments had fake flowers too.
It was not a sad visit. I really just wanted to see where she was--its a very beautiful cemetery--very green and park like. I talked with her for a bit. I was glad to go.
We also found my great uncle Harley's internment. This is grandma's brother.
We took some time and walked around. It's a very old cemetery and we enjoyed finding the oldest headstones. Harper picked flowers off of headstones and danced around. She was not exactly respectful while we were there. We decided that as a child growing up in Kellogg you had two choices--mining or military. This cemetery had a Veteran's memorial bench and so many headstones had military insignia.
After we left the cemetery we decided to go to the Sunshine Mine Memorial. I had never seen this before. My grandma and grandpa knew several people who died in this tragedy. Logan was very interested in the history.. Presley noticed how the head lamp is always on.
As we were driving back to the hotel we noticed there were mining tours at Crystal Bridges Mine so we decided to go one.
The hard hats have names on them--Presley's says Wylie, Logan's Dopey, and Rylan's is Bashful. Harper was not happy to have to wear a hard hat. Rylan was sure we were going to find diamonds. This is how Dave had to walk through the tour--he could never have been a miner. We were laughing so hard. I laugh every time I see this picture.
The tour guide told us the story of how four men mined for gold in this mine for three years. It appears that they were planning to come back and mine for more as they had left their tools and buckets and boarded the entrance up. But for some reason, they never did return. The tunnel was discovered 100 years later and was opened for public tours. It was an interesting tour and again, Logan was interested in the history. Our tour guide pointed out gold nuggets, quartz, and silver, but no diamonds.
The owner is Ray Cropp and he mentioned that he worked at Sunshine (but got out about 10 years before the disaster) and at Bunker Hill. I told him my Grandpa Jim Legard worked at Sunshine too, and he recognized the name and then specifically asked if there was a Jerry Legard (my grandpa's brother).
Ry led us back with his flashlight.
They had a little gift shop and the kids picked out some things. Outside workers taught the kids how to pan for gold and the kids had a good time finding agates and gold nuggets (fool's gold). They each got a little vial to hold their gold.
My great grandma worked at Bunker Hill--I think this is where she retired from. These old box cars were out near our hotel on tracks. We never could find the Bunker Hill mine. One waiter told us there are no left over buildings from Bunker Hill.
We went out to eat lunch and then to the water park. This hotel has the body boarding/surfing simulator and Logan, Presley, and Ry all tried it out. There were lots of crashes.
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| Logan attempted a 360 degree roll over |
Going down the big waterslides
A ginormous bucket would fill with water and drop down about every 15 minutes. Logan, Presley, and dad decided to lay down and take the water onslaught.
We closed the waterpark down with an ice cream treat at 7:00 and then went up to our room to watch Game 6 of the Miami Heat vs. San Antonio Spurs. I'm glad we opted to order in and not leave to go out to eat. It was an over time game won by the Heat.
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