Hestia's Homeschool

While we were visiting Pike's Peak the girls wheedled their father into letting them pan for gemstones.

They had a very good time--and so did he--enough so that he ended up paying for a few more extra bags of stuff to pan.

We had planned on visiting Cripple Creek to pan for gold while we were there, but never managed to make it there, so beguiled were we by the multitude of very interesting things close by. As it was, each girl came home with a respectable little bag full of tiny gemstones to treasure as a happy memento.

Our family does like rocks, minerals and fossils a great deal. We are planning on rejoining Dry Dredgers, a local fossil club sponsored by the University of Cincinnati, and the Gem and Mineral Society.  Both of them sponsor fun fieldtrips.

Now if I can only find room to store yet another collection.

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• #11 Comment from dornbrau 
  6/19/06 10:45 AM | Permalink

  We went gold panning in the mountains last weekend... we didn't find any gold, but boy was it fun.  Okay, the kids and Steve had fun panning... I never put my camera down!  As we were driving along, Steve kept saying... 'your friends would have liked this,' and 'your friends would have liked that!'.  So there you have it, you'll just have to come back so we can show you around!
• #10 Comment from rgossett4195 
  6/15/06 4:58 PM | Permalink

  That is my favorite thing to do!  rose~
• #9 Comment from ryanagi 
  6/14/06 5:13 PM | Permalink

  Tyler would love doing something like this. He love to dip his hands into water to play and he loves rocks. So...perfect! LOL
• #8 Comment from sugar1337 
  6/14/06 4:29 PM | Permalink

  Looks like they had fun  :)
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• #7 Comment from deshelestraci 
  6/14/06 9:02 AM | Permalink

  Do they "stock" the creek or are they really finding native gemstones?  My girls would love that.  I really want to go to Colorado now that I have seen your vacation.
  Traci