Day 34
Happy birthday Tegan (2 days early). Today we had a video conference (8 am our time, noon their time) with Tegan, Michael and Niki for Tegan's 1st birthday, because we had a good Internet connection and could not be sure we would have the same on July 28th in two days.
This morning Sharon did laundry, I got an oil change and then we both did grocery shopping, and stopped at A&W on the way back for lunch. The interesting thing about Fairbanks is that we drove through days of wilderness, drove up and down many mountains and weaved through many valleys to get here. You might think we would find a wilderness town; but, on the contrary - we are in a city that is not different than any city in North America, other than they have 20 hours of sunlight per day all summer long.
In the afternoon we drove up to the El Dorado Gold Mine; we weren't sure if this was a play on words and that it was a gold mine for the mineral or a gold mine for the owners of the tourist attraction; in either case we had a great day and enjoyed it very much. All of us panned for gold, and all got lucky. Can't remember what everyone else found but between us, Sharon and I collected $44 worth of gold flakes. The attached picture shows all the ladies after collecting their gold (no wonder they are smiling!).
Exhausted once again we all returned to be rejuvenated by happy hour.
It was guys turn to cook again; we were all too tired to go out, so we just whipped up whatever and called it dinner.
P.S. - We had another sunny day started at 11 C and went up to 23 C.
P.P.S. - We hear that the "top-of-the-world" highway from Tok AK to Dawson City YT is still closed.
Just wondering Terry if it hurt to get "your oil changed"?
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