Monday, August 10, 2009

Crystal Peak

As part of my birthday weekend we took Spidey up to Crystal Peak. It used to be a crystal mine, and now people go up there and you bring shovels and picks and you can dig for crystals! We had a ton of fun!

Jacob likes it in Spidey!
Here we are on the road!

The scenery is so gorgeous...the weather was absolutely perfect!

First we drove up to Boca.

This is where we stopped and had our Subway sandwiches!

Jacob enjoys the bumpiest parts!!! He is going to be a ringer for Disneyland! Yippee!!!




The sign says that you are allowed to fill 1 5-gallon bucket, per vehicle, each week. I guess, since a lot of the rock is white, people were taking it for landscaping purposes. They would literally fill up a pickup truck bed over and over again!


John is up by some Quartz rocks.
Some were such a pretty color of green and blue!


You really realize how far off the ground you are when you see Jacob next to the big ol' tires!

This is the kind of stuff you sift through to find the crystals!

The boys on the hunt!!!


Neat stuff, truly!
Jacob and I had his picnic lunch while John and Justin went further down the side to see what they could find!
It's a beautiful view!
Here we are on our way back down!

Jacob conked out on the way home! I think all the rocking and bumping put him to sleep!

Here is some video of the drive!

Here are the boys on the way up having fun!

2 comments:

Jen said...

I have pictures of the crystals; I guess they are still in the camera! I'll have to post them seperate!

Diane said...

Looks like a fun and bumpy time!