Today we drove around historic Grand Forks. It was established by the Russians. We then in turned in the remainder of our Canadian money in exchange for gas and headed to the border. We drove into Washington, past Spokane, and in to Coeur d’Alene.
We checked into our motel and headed for the gold mine tour. It was very interesting. We walked through the mine that had been abandoned, bought and sold, then discovered again as it had been buried to hide it. Afterwards we did some panning and found some pyrite nuggets, nice rocks, and gold flakes. The owner was helping us pan. Patty wanted to collect some of the sand with gold in it. When we were going to leave, I told him that Patty liked the sand to show to her students under a microscope. At that point he insisted on us coming up to the store so he could give each of us a gold panning pan that they sell in the store. He was very nice.
We then drove a little bit around the lake and went to dinner.
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