Mini Vaca with the Tyler and Megan!

In March 2015, Kyle and I went to Cripple Creek with our good friends, Tyler and Megan! We did a mine tour and then out to dinner and stayed at the casinos in Cripple Creek! We had a blast with them! It was hard to leave the boys overnight, especially since it was the first time leaving Dylin overnight and he was so young, but they all did awesome with Grandma and Grandpa VanHorn which was very comforting.

Tyler getting up and personal with the ATM on our way out of town. This ATM drive through was tiny and we had to squeeze our car through it lol.

While we are waiting for our mine tour we drove up the hill to look at the excavating that was going on up there! It was awesome to see how ENORMOUS the trucks were. They look small in the photos but they were huge!

Getting ready to go down into the mountain!

This elevator is what we used to go down into the mine. I think they called it an 9 man elevator? The point is that nine grown men squeeze into this tiny elevator each day to go down and work. Let me tell you this thing was tiny. We had 6 adults in there in our trip and everybody was up in each other's business lol. If you are claustrophobic do not do a mine tour. The elevator walls were tight to the elevator and it gets pitch black for long periods of time. What a fun adventure though!

A group selfie inside the elevator.

Getting our tour. The tour guide used to be a miner and would do demonstrations with us!

This machine was soooo loud

Getting a ride on the mining cart!

Looking WAYYY down!

We had a blast with you, Tyler and Megan!

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Wonderful little company!

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