Reno

So this summer we went out of town forever. We have pretty much been following Craig around as he has been working. We started off in June in Reno. Craig would work while the kids and I would go and play! We have some friends that live in that area that we hung out with in college (GO BYU!) a million years ago before kids! Now both of us have 4 kids each! So we got to do a lot of sightseeing with them! We went to the Nevada State museum which is in an old coin mint building. Its a great museum. This is our states fossil.

They have this cool little ghost town

and a mine replica you can go down into.

We can't forget the mammoth skeleton! We had a good time there!

We went to some parks and of course my climbers had to climb an enormous tree! I had to assist a bit helping them get down. If there is a tree Sierra will climb it and then someone else is sure

to follow.

We went to the State Capitol Building in Carson City. We like to collect the commemorative state coin with the governor on it. We are now up to two governor coins. We looked around the capitol and saw a display about Nevada.

After that we played in the grass outside and waited for Craig to get off work and find us.

He finally came!

Another day we went to a small children's museum. They had a treadmill wall that the kids climbed on forever.

There were various activities for the kids to do there.

One day on the way home from somewhere (it all runs together) we stopped by a speciality candy/chocolate store and bought some candy, and that's where we found this giant prospector!

While we were staying in Reno we stayed in a condo, but on the last night we were there we stayed in the Peppermill Hotel.

It was really nice and we had a great time. It was really pretty and we stayed out at the pool for a long time. We also ended up getting pool side service at the pool...we were hungry and when in Rome.....I guess you eat a little $20.00 pizza!

Our last day in Nevada we went to Virginia City. Craig was even able to come. We were so excited he was with us!

The kids had been looking forward to going there the entire trip. It is slated as the liveliest ghost town in Nevada! It is a cute, fun old town.

We went on a train ride

and even got held up by robbers!