Day 3 of our Vacation

So we took a drive down to a place called Cripple Creek. We stopped at a mine. They had all of these old rusty things that we kind of liked!
This is what the mine looked like where you go down.

Everyone who was going on a tour of the mine got a hard hat and then a coat if they needed one. We were going down 1,000 feet so it would be cold. This sign was the last thing we saw before we went down in the dark.

They put about six people in that tiny space and then there was another one right on top of that one.
This was our tour guide who works as a miner. He showed us how they used to mine through the years. He definitley fit the "miner look". His favorite thing to say after almost every sentence was, "Just one of those things". It got to be kind of funny!

At the end our guide picked out one of those rocks that had flecks of gold in it. This mine was one of our favorite things we saw on our vacation. At the visitor center in Cripple Creek they had a diagram of what the whole mine looked like. After we ate lunch we went drove through a town called Victor. They had lots of abandoned mines that you could walk through
We saw this off of the side of the road. It used to be a tunnel but I guess it wasn't sturdy so they built the road around it.

The last thing we did that day was we took a cog railway up to Pikes Peak. It was freezing all the way up there! We saw a couple of big horned sheep. The views were really beautiful. It was cloudy at the top so you couldn't see that far.