Ophir Old Mining Town

On Sunday, we decided to do something together as a family that wouldn't cost a ton of money since we need to save money right now. We have never been up to the Ophir old mining town but have heard that it's pretty cool. So, we took a drive to Ophir. It's a WAY WAY small town, and nothing I could ever live in or anything, but it was cool to check out. There were random things laying around the mountain area.









We kinda walked around and saw some of the cool things that were there.










We even saw an old phone booth that was right in the middle of "town". It cracked me up since I haven't seen one in years. I didn't try it out to see if it still works. LOL!



Josh and Tiff were funny. They kept looking in all the windows to see the things inside. Of course, I had to get the pics.




There were actually some pretty cool things inside the buildings. In fact, in one of them, they had a dummy in one of the windows and Josh jumped so hard he almost fell over. It was hillarious! I am too short to get a pic of the dummy since it was up way high, so the immagination will have to do for that visual.




There was a lot of fun things to see there.













It was kind of weird seeing the really old with the really new and right next to each other.







The other thing that cracked me up was their town sign. Only in nowhereville do people still have signs like this.



I will say though that it is pretty cool how very close they are to the mountain. I mean they are literally right next to it.



It was a fun family activity to do together on one our very few days where we are all actually off work, dance and school and can do things together. It's days and times like this that really make you remember why you love your family so much.