This morning the campground was extremely quiet! I woke up
refreshed and feeling ready to relax the day! We drove the eleven miles to
downtown to check the Sunday mass schedule. The church door was open and the
street level floor was used as a school house with many pictures of the early
days. A man walked in and Helen asked him if he was a priest. He answered that
he was the Bishop from Whitehorse and he would be saying the mass at 10:30.
Helen again did a reading, this time to a full house of maybe 30 people.
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| Jack, Lucien, Helen, Jim "Gold Rush" History Channel! |
After mass, we were invited to a lunch downstairs in the old
school class room. I had a conversation with Bishop Gary Gordon’s uncle, who was up here
looking for his fathers’ pictures which might have been displayed around the
room. His father was actually here during the gold rush era. He pointed to a
parishioner who had a gold mine claim and had just started mining four days ago
and had gotten 80 ounces of gold!
After lunch, we went looking for the local laundry. I parked
the truck out front and started to walk to the door when I spotted Jack and
John from the “Gold Rush Series” on the History Channel. We took pictures and
chatted for a few minutes. It was a great day at the laundry mat.
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| Jack checking the pockets for gold dust |
The rest of today was spent uploading pictures and posting
eight days of blogs. The page views on the blog have now topped 1400 and I am
happy that people are interested in our adventures.
That is what we did and saw
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