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Gold Bug Mine

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On May 25, 2022

In Family Adventures, Travel

A couple of weekends ago my children and I took the opportunity to visit one of the many mines in California. We were invited to go along with one of my brother’s and his family. My children enjoy spending time with all of their family members and we have been taking every opportunity that we can, especially since moving closer to family at the beginning of the year.

The mine they had chosen to visit is about an hour away from where we live; taking California Highway 50 to the east in the city of Placerville. Placerville is a city located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Upon arriving at the Gold Bug Mine we were able to purchase tickets for a self guided tour of the mine. This tour uses an app you can download to your phone. If you do not have a phone you can download the app with, they have a device to use as well.

Inside of the Mine

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Adventures at LEGOLAND!

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On January 10, 2020

In Family Adventures, Travel

This fall when the school had its fall break my husband and I decided to take a vacation with our children even though only one of them goes to school at this time. We went to the San Diego area and took them to LEGOLAND. This was the first time any of us had been to LEGOLAND and we thought it was a really good place to take them that would have rides as well as a place that features something they all love.

All of my children enjoy playing with Legos and while there are times when they will not play with them for a while they always come back and play with them for days. They love to build the different sets that they have received or to just build whatever they feel like making with their Legos.

While there are still a lot of things that not all my children could do at LEGOLAND, they all found something to do and had a fun time including my youngest who wasn’t even two years old yet when we were there. He enjoyed going on some of the rides, and did not enjoy other ones at first, but eventually warmed up to it.

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Traveling for the Holidays

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On December 27, 2018

In Family Adventures, Travel

Since we have family that lives somewhat close to us and family that lives in another state we find our family traveling every other year for at least Christmas time to the other state. While we travel every year a couple of hours to have Christmas dinner with one side of our family, the other years we find that we have to take the time to travel two days down and then two days back. It is always a fun time traveling, but sometimes we find things to do together once we are there.

This year it was time for travel to the other state to visit with the family we don’t get to see as often. The travel days were not too bad this year even with a one year old. We were surprised that he did as well as he did and did not freak out as much as we thought he would.

Since this year we came down to Albuquerque, New Mexico we wanted to go and visit areas of light displays that we would visit when we lived here.

This year we learned of a tradition that we had not heard of before even when we lived here. We all went to a golf course not far from where we were staying and they had some of the local hot air balloons set up and do what they call a balloon glow.

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