We were given hardhats and little breathing things to wear/carry with us. Of course, Erik sports it with pride!
This made me giggle. How many times are we at a place where it's all "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!!!"
And of course my husband decided he wanted to touch it with his tongue. :(
Lots of info to read (snore).
Lots of stuff to see (yay!).
Hey Baby Paul, I didn't get a good pic, but they have vehicles down there that were electric and run on alternative fuels. You'd enjoy it.
There was a train ride, which was pretty great. It's only been running for a few months. Since I've been wanting to go to this for a LONG time, I'm actually glad we waited and had the opportunity to go a bit more into the mine.
This was pretty sweet.
There are some very recognizable movie props down there. :) Plus some of the canisters.
There was another little tram tour called the "dark tour" (I think) .... it was pretty cool, too.
All dark + shadowy.
They let us grab some salt from a rock pile. Can't eat this stuff; it's mostly used for ice melt and the like. I plan to put mine on the ice the next time I make ice cream. :)
There's an awesome wall with lots of quotes about salt. I am a salt kinda girl. I don't much cook with pepper, but gimme salt all day, every day! Of course, I don't often salt when cooking, because not everyone has my tolerance for salt. Plus, growing up, the fellas would dump salt onto everything, even if you'd already salted it. So it seemed a waste to salt things in preparation.
OH. This is awful. My big goofy smile. Just because I'm a dork. It was VERY bright when we exited the tour .... and with a big expanse of concrete to reflect the sun .... I could barely keep my eyes open. :(
I insisted on getting a little rock candy in the gift store. I know there's no salt in the candy or anything, but c'mon. Don't you remember those from being a little kid? (neither does Erik .... he has yet to eat his; if he doesn't hurry up, I might have to help him out!).
