FlagStone The final day

Tuesday dawned kinda cold and windy, off we went to Flagstone claim. When we got there I was kinda unsure what course to take, whether to go back to the hotel and wait for warmer weather or try to get some of the claims we could drive up to. Originally I had volunteered Colt and Levi to do the dreaded long hike here while Dendra and I did the long ride around to 8,9,10 claims, both of them would be cold and even more uncomfortable with the wind blowing. It was decided that we would indeed drive to the easy ones and wait for the weather to moderate somewhat to do the ugly hike/ride. after reporting in with the Quarry manager all went really well and we got done in great time and off to the Hotel. As soon as we got there Dendra had a shower to return some of the dirt, well as we needed the restrooms etc. we found there was no water in the south tower where we were staying and would not have water for at least two days. They offered to move us over to the other tower, but after some consideration we decide if we were going to pack up we might as well go home. All this was at about 5:30 in the afternoon, so off we went home, all in all a good trip and way nice to be home. one stop in Mesquite for supper and home by 10:30, we were very blessed to have a good trip, accomplish the things we needed to do and more, all while having a good time with loved ones.

Monday morning... off to the Dentist, Dendra had an appointment with our Favorite Dentist to have a cap replaced that she lost while in Missouri visiting the kids there. after the short stop we were off on a whirlwind tour to Eldorado Canyon, Levi wanted to see the area and the claims we used to do there. We had a great day, we saw a helicopter UP CLOSE!! at the overlook at Nelsons landing, they landed about 200-300 ft. away to change pilots then off again, Tomy and Hazel thought it was pretty cool. also along the way we found 29 caches too, one of them had an extra bonus, a Rattlesnake was coiled up uncomfortably close to the cache... we still got the cache though (I might not if I had seen the snake before iI picked up the container.. Saddie says look there's a snake...altogether a great day!! Later we had supper at the Gold Strike Casino of course, this year the food was great.

Sunday afternoon we ( Colt, Dendra and I) went back out to Easter Sunday to try and replace a post that has been missing for some time. we had treied to locate this elusive post a couple of times in years past. After some Email with Peter he wished us to go and do the best we could with only our GPSr's, Colt extrapolated some coordinates where the post should be located. When we got there we took a different route following Colt's coordinates and there lying in a ravine, grey and out of the normal line of sight was the ORIGINAL post, Thank Heavens!! we literally stumbled over it but with the original post and it's rebar marker we had no doubt where to put the replacement post. Well we painted it ,put a top on it, new tag and boy it looks pretty and we are so happy to have this one found!! P.S. Colts coordinates were only 80 feet off, Amazing!