Fair Time

It's time for the annual Tanana Valley Fair. This year we decided to get season passes so I could take Reagan during the day. Her most favorite part of the fair is all the animals! And of course my favorite part is all the food :) Well actually we've all eaten a lot and gained some weight... Here's a few pictures that are from my phone, camera is dieing so its charging so we can go to fair tonight :)

so after icecream and.....

elephant ears and....

more icecream....

you gain a little weight :) we still love our chunky monkey :)

El Dorado Gold Mine

In Fairbanks there are 2 major tourist attractions, The Riverboat Discovery and El Dorado Gold Mine. I had never been on either of these until last year when Brian got free tickets for the Riverboat. It was fun and now I can say I've done it! On Wednesday, Reagan and I did El Dorado Gold Mine with Rebecca(Brian's sister), and her kids, Ben and Ming Lu. We had great weather and found lots of gold! We rode the train into the gold mining town and on our way we stopped in a Permafrost tunnel and they told us all about the mining operation. Reagan had a great time on the train! The highlight of the trip is always gold panning and cookies at the end. Gold panning is definitely a lot harder than it looks! Reagan and I came home with quite a bit of gold. And the cookies are made fresh and very yummy!!

waiting for train to take-off

tunnel

Reagan gold panning

train ride back to our cars(Rebecca, Ben, Ming Lu and Reagan)

yummy cookies :)

Lake

It was so sunny Saturday that we decided to take the jet-ski out. So glad we did, the warm sun felt very nice :) and it was fun to have family time at the lake.

she kept pushing me further out until she fell in