We just went to see the new Harry Potter movie.  Due to road construction, we spent more time driving to and from the movie than we spent watching the movie.  The movie was 2 hours and 40 minutes.  Our baby sitter was an hour late, and with the road construction, that meant our night out to dinner and movie consisted of driving for an hour and a half, eating fast food drive through in front of the movie theater before rushing inside to make the movie on time, watching the movie, then driving for another hour and a half to get home.  I love living in the middle of nowhere.  At least the deer keep things interesting here.  While that may not make sense right now, just follow this link: http://www.kxly.com/Global/story.asp?S=10727185

If that's not a link then copy and paste I guess, then click on the "Deer take Republic residents under siege" link

under the Also See tab. I have no idea why my font or size or something changed. It'll probably try to post it all as

one link. Oh well. Let's see. Weird. I hope everybody's doing well. See ya.

The Mines of...

We went to an old mine yesterday, called Kelly Mine. This picture is from what was just a cave at first that they sunk shafts into. All the shafts had filled with water, and it was a little dicey getting down into this one and back out, so the kids stayed on top and threw rocks into the water.
This is a tunnel down the mountain a little ways from the cave. The old ore cart tracks are still there.

Here's the entrance to the tunnel.

The kids really liked it, and while I was disappointed by the lack of dwarves, gold, or a battle with a Balrog on a narrow bridge over a fiery chasm, I suppose it was pretty cool. The tunnel went back a little ways, maybe 1000 feet or so. Today Simon and I are going to play golf in Colville, and Faith and Dylan are going swimming in Colville. We're having a barbeque tomorrow afternoon with some friends and their kids, then we can watch the fire works from our back deck. Hope everybody's doing well.