Happy Memorial Day! We are enjoying our stay in Fairbanks which will be five nights. Today we have a lazy morning and then we leave to explore the oil pipeline where Jeff poses with the sign of the "retired pig." The pig is actually a device which travels inside the pipe to facilitate the flow of oil, but if the shoe fits...
We continue on to the El Dorado Gold Mine. This is my third visit here and I still find it exciting. It was a working mine and after a touristy train ride you get to see how placer mining is done and then each guest is handed a bag of paydirt and you are off to pan for gold. It is quite comfortable as you sit and the water is warm, but it gives you an idea of the process. I did my best ever finding $17 worth of gold flakes and a baby nugget in my pan. My necklace which held our gold flakes from the previous visits is full, so Jeff bought me earrings to hold the newest gold.
Now it is time to eat and we are off to a Salmon Bake. The gluttonous feast is held at Pioneer Park and it is all you can eat salmon, fried halibut, prime rib, beans and salad bar. Drinks and desserts finish off the menu and we are stuffed but happy. A stroll around the park helps to work off the calories and Jeff decides to enter the 40 degree below room. This is actually a freezer that you go into and do some experiments like throw a cup of boiling water in the air and watch it disappear. They gave Jeff a parka, gloves and hat and off he went. Inside he also used a frozen banana to drive a nail into a board. The photo shows him coming out and then in a state of brain freeze he began to swing on the kiddy moose swings. He has thawed out and is doing much better now.
The last photo shows me and a guest in front of the little pink bus. The campground owns two of these beauties and they are distinctive. When the cruise passengers on their comfy tour buses see us coming they are aghast. We do make a fashion statement and can always find the bus in a crowded parking lot.
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